Stingray

About this work:

My inspiration for the work came in part from one of my favorite books, Walter Isaacson’s biography “Leonardo da Vinci”. The key theme of his book was that Leonardo’s attention to detail and his endless curiosity—his exploration of whatever subject drew his interest—enabled him to create great works of art, science, and engineering. I feel a kinship with Leonardo after reading that book. Not in hubris, but in the sense that I feel like I can relate to his mindset, for better and for worse. I’m curious. I constantly have questions that often come out of left field and I can get swept up in seeking the answers. Sometimes this is to my detriment, I may lose the ability to see big picture, lose time I need to spend on more important projects (curiosity led the cat to climb into Schrödinger’s box…) but more often than not, I use it to my advantage, constantly asking the question “how can I apply this to my work?”. In this, for me, art is the freedom to run full-speed and head long down every rabbit hole I find. My investigations are what have enabled me to make exciting developments in my work: finding a missing link between digital and physical space, creating an algorithm to determine all the parameters needed to create a geometric abstract painting, bridging painting and sculpture and art, science, and mathematics through my investigation of perception and my design and construction of dimensional panels. After constructing this dimensional panel and hanging it on the wall, I immediately saw it as a stingray, specifically, the blue-spotted stingray came to my mind, and this work is the result of my deep-dive into that research.