Adding Machines

Using simple materials like wood and paper, I create kinetic sculptures that generate intricate light patterns to explore perception. My interactive works invite viewers to experience them with eyes closed, allowing flickering patterns to evoke personal visions and memories through harmony and discord.

Albrecht and Joseph

This piece is named after Albrecht Becker and Joseph Arbert. In Germany, 1925 Albrecht began his first long-term relationship with Joseph Arbert, a professor who was more than twenty years his senior. The older man became Becker's intellectual mentor, introducing him to a world of art and literature. They would remain together until the Gestapo arrested them ten years later in 1935 after Albrecht inadvertently tipped them off to Arbert during interrogations.

The light pattern produced by this sculpture when activated has hard and soft elements intermingling with a seemingly random effect. The shapes and colors of the ever changing "projection" include abstractions of fences and borders as well both warm and cold light.

Manual Grid Machine
(When We Meet)

Branching off from the Dreamachine developed by Artist Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, this sculpture requires activation by a two participants. One participant activates the movement of the sculpture while the other participant stands in the light with their eyes closed. As light passes through the closed eyelids the participant is encouraged into a space where thoughts and feelings are conjured from the brains' instinct to interpret moving/flickering light and patterns.

2022, wood, screws, child's wooden train set pieces, 2 LED lights, colored Gels, 84 x 48 x 84

and Other Fruit

The title of this piece references a painting by Giovanni Stanchi,"Watermelons, Peaches, Pears, and Other Fruit in a Landscape" (Rome c. 1645). The other fruit he speaks of is the watermelon. The watermelon has recently been used as a reference to the struggle for a free Palestine because of the colors in the Palestinian flag.

""I am examining how societies arrive at a situation in which a sensible outside observer can think to himself: How could these societies, learned and rational, be swept up into collective acts of madness? I am looking to locate the spot at which societies fly off-course and find themselves on a dangerous track. It's important to locate this point in order to cope with such situations in the present." -- Moshe Zimmerman

Here I use a childs toy of a watermelon in combination with the hanging and moving LED light to reference the precarity of the struggle , one small vibrant piece in a big mess of a landscape. The holes in the toy and in the scultpure creates a false bokeh effect (a shallow field) across the projected wall which change shape and color as the light moves back and forth

Paper Rotary Machine

This experiment stem from an interest in the effect of moving shadows and light on perception and the brain. This is a take on Duchamp's rotating discs. It creates a psychedelic light and shadow pattern. It's interactive and somewhat delicate. Two wheels are connected to the rod and two others spin independently creating a constant random pattern. The projector adds another layer of moving color blocks and subtle imagery that may or may not be perceived by the viewer.

My art is inspired by the dynamic effects of light and shadow on our perception and imagination. I create kinetic sculptures that use simple materials and mechanisms to generate complex and unpredictable patterns of light. These patterns evoke the sensations of light that I have experienced in different contexts, such as traveling, dancing, or dreaming. They also reflect the paradoxes and contrasts of human relationships, such as harmony and discord, intimacy and distance, clarity and mystery.

I enjoy working with everyday objects, such as wood, paper, screws, toy kits, and lights, to create interactive and playful artworks. I expose the inner workings of my sculptures, inviting the viewers to engage with them and explore their possibilities.

I want my art to be accessible and familiar, yet also surprising and challenging. My sculptures are influenced by the Dreamachine, a device invented by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville that produces flickering light effects. I invite the viewers to experience my sculptures with their eyes closed, as the light stimulates their brain to produce vivid and personal visions.

This way, my art becomes a portal to another dimension, where the shapes and forms of light are “an apt metaphor for the kind of non-synchronized, nonlinear and utterly dematerialized world.” - Brion Gysin

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Adding Machines

Albrecht and Joseph

Manual Grid Machine(When We Meet)

and Other Fruit

Paper Rotary Machine

Manual Grid Machine
(When We Meet)