Fluid Dynamics
(Material play with causality and desire)Play has always been a main component of my work. Nostalgia, science, and history are at play in the project Fluid Dynamics. The Western Interior Seaway during the Cretaceous period left the deserts of the western United States with fossilized shells and sea creatures. I’ve always been fascinated by the thought of microscopic organisms floating through fluids or gases, the creation of life, building blocks of proteins, and carbon molecules combining to form cellular organisms that build upon themselves—the origin of species, so to speak. I liken it to how, as we play in our youth, we combine and mix things, imagining the creation of something out of nothing. Hands thick in the mud or the sands of the beach—the primordial soup flowing all around us.
Balloons, smoke, and objects in the desert air play with the past, combine with the present, and freeze in time. It’s the joy of color in a monochromatic landscape, shapes littered with anthropomorphism, floating briefly in the air before crashing to the ground or dispersing into nothingness.
Balloons, smoke, and objects in the desert air play with the past, combine with the present, and freeze in time. It’s the joy of color in a monochromatic landscape, shapes littered with anthropomorphism, floating briefly in the air before crashing to the ground or dispersing into nothingness.