| 36 x 36 x 8 5,000 Push-Pins on styrofoam block and foam board
Inspired by the spectrum of rainbow colors painted by a light beam through a prism, 9 pin colors are interlaced and woven over 4 stately pyramid-prisms rising in quadrants and an Aztec-like temple grounding the center. From afar, bright and bold colors draw the eye gradually left to right into darker hues, while giving homage to the vertical mounts. From an angle, the hues blur into pools of liquid color while the spires become painted monuments. | |  |
These are 3-Dimensional shapes jutting out from 2-dimensional surfaces. The 1-dimensional points of pin color merge the spaces between. From afar, the shapes define the image.
 | | The inter-play of pattern to surface, and surface to pattern challenges the eye and mind. Both become symbiotic –the overlay of pin pattern re-shapes the form; the foam board form re-aligns the pin pattern. From afar, both co-exist. |
 | | These were inspired by my daughter’s MS Paint shape pictures, and the clean lines from 1960’s pop-art. From afar, they project simple forms –calm colors, yet sharp lines. Up close, rows of pins become terraces of edges and levels. |
 | | These pieces reduce the grain of vision to compacted pins and simplified terrains, as well as a smaller footprint. Some are inspired by the larger works and thematically run with a single element of a terrain, or seed of a color pattern. In all, the pointillism effect still comes into play, albeit with a closer (and surprising) point of view. |
 | | These use clear crystal Push Pins to bring out an Icy gleam in each piece. From a distance, each work uses 3-D surfaces and solid color Pins to make their statements - but the Ice element frames each shape and projection in isolation unto itself. |
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| Each piece begins with a vision - a surface, or maybe a geometric pattern, or maybe a spectrum of color. Sometimes it only makes sense after all three are blended. Finally, with the vision in mind, the engineering begins and the process becomes the artist. As the surface takes shape and the pins start converging, the original vision morphs into its own destiny. When the last pin is pushed and the frame goes up, a 4 th dimension emerges. As you view it, moving around the space, seeing a new shape, a new hue almost at every angle - at that moment, the piece has a name.
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