Artist Statement
How we experience the past, the future, and the present is informed
ordinarily by translucent layers of spacetime that surround us as we are co
ntinually being pulled into the future through technological innovation and sci
entific advancement, and yet tied back by our attachments to objects and places
seemingly fixed in the past. The advent of the digital age supersedes the analog: addi
tive color obsoletes subtractive color; the two exist in fundamentally separate
layers of time and their dissonant merge emphasizes the impracticality of
yet attempting to reunite the present with the past. However
, this seemingly errant expansion of a moment in time to include divergent eras is
our attempt to overcome the confines of our three-dimensional
world in order to define a four-dimensional object: increasing our perception of the
held object from a single snapshot to encompassing its entire lifetime. A pers
on is both alive and dead, depending on when you perceive them. A touch is felt in
the present and remembered in the future. A fire is both burning and spent,
changing from moment to moment. A work of digital art begins its life in
a theoretical world consisting of red, green, and blue light, and is transformed into a
real object of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black pigment. Your perception of an object
exists only in an instantaneous moment in the present, yet an infinite number of these
single moments define that object in the fourth dimension. Do you understand now
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