Art

This is but a smidgen of the art I have made over the years. I lost a lot of my photos in a mass RAID failure and, since I was terrible about appreciating my own works in my younger years, I didn’t hold onto many of my own pieces. Heck, I even burned some of my old writings a la Nobokov until someone actually told me they were worth keeping.

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Blast & Pulse Power Art
By using a capacitor discharge system with a low inductance circuit, I pump thousands of amperes through thin wires or magnetic coils to create art. Shown here are my business cards, and some early can work.
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Electronic Sculpture
These sculptures are electrically wired to a certain extent, and bring in my engineering side (even if only to a degree). "The Football is Ready, Mr. President." - It is meant to represent how outdated the weapons that control the fate of our world are and, as presented in an armed state with the red lights and cliché "covered missile switches," the temptation to press one given how easy it would be to do so. "Curiosity (Parts A & B) - It was placed in two parts across each other from a table, consisting of a signal generator from General Electric salvaged from electrical scrap, and an oscilloscope. The scope was hooked into the generator via a cable that secretly went under the table to the signal generator. The generator had a note that said "feel free to try the dials," and it would cause the signals on the other end of the table to change. The scope also had a "rubber duck" antenna that was tuned to the interference caused by a mass of conducting water (e.g. the human body) nearing it via capacitive coupling. So when a patron walked by the display, it would change just enough to make them watch it. Many would realize that it was based on movement, but would get thrown when it changed on its own seemingly, when in reality it was another patron on the other end of the table altering the signal generator. The goal was to drive engagement of the patrons and stimulate a sense of, you guessed it, curiosity.
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Chemical Sculpture
Chemical reaction based sculpture. "Iron Age" - Ceramic pot with 1 kilogram of Thermite ignited inside. The thermite cast itself into the pot upon ignition. The heat caused the port o fracture under thermal stress, and the patterning on its surface are due to oils and other contaminants on the surface becoming super heated & scorched. "Ice 9 Is Alive" - Using Sodium Acetate in a super-saturated solution & seed crystals to encase the laboratory glassware in crystals.
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Traditional Paintings
"Under the Eastern Stars" - Acrylic on canvas "Manufactured Art: - Acrylic, Water Colour, Shrink Wrap & canvas sales material on canvas "Imagination Land is Surrounded!" - Water Colour on Board "Frankenstein Does Drugs!" - Acrylic (burned and inflated using a torch), foam, Gallium metal alloy paint on canvas.
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Hikaru Dorodango
Hikaru Dorodango is the art of taking dirt or a similar powder and polishing it to a shine. "Art Found in a Gallery Today" is made from French Ultramarine painters pigment. The powder was 10,000 mesh, and designed to dissolve easily into a medium. This made for a challenging choice for a dorodango piece, but made a beautiful matte sphere. "Art Found, 3010 C.E." is a piece made from two powders: a rough dirt core, and a matte French Ultramarine pigment. It is paired with "Art Found in a Gallery Today" as a representation of decay. "The Phoenix" is a piece made using ashes from a burned valuable, giving birth to new life. It is shown here in three stages: first solid sphere, smoothed, and polished.
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Ballistics Art Project #1
Saved - Level II (NIJ) bullet resistant polycarbonate. Shot with a 9mm. "Miracle" - Level II (NIJ) bullet resistant material. Shot with a .223 out of a Colt AR-15. The material is not rated for this round, yet one became beautifully lodged in the material.
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Chaos
Photo of me performing "Chaos," a performance piece using cannons loaded with paint, hammers, and delicious fruit.
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Americana
HDRs of the country using a specular grain in QTPFSGUI. "Simpler Times" "Country Road"
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The Untold Rise of the Waters

Porcelain ceramic
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Light Paintings
A sampling of my Light Paintings "Night at the Rave" - Traditional light painting on Kodak film. "Painting Light" - Long exposure with a laser paint brush onto a canvas. "Cellular Ghost" - Traditional light painting using Cellular phones. "Camera Graffiti" - traditional light painting "Stairway" - Traditional light painting
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Nitrate Photo Emulsions
I experimented with making Nitrate based photo emulsions applied to fabrics and canvas. The exposures time was in minutes, but it was possible to make photographs directly onto the canvas with a box camera and strong lighting rather than capture, enlarge, then print.

Blast & Pulse Power Art

Electronic Sculpture

Chemical Sculpture

Traditional Paintings

Hikaru Dorodango

Ballistics Art Project #1

Chaos

Americana

The Untold Rise of the Waters

Light Paintings

Nitrate Photo Emulsions