Wet Edges - Nov 6, 2003

I would have guessed Painter, but it’s Adobe Photoshop.

Kryptonite Gas - Jul 14, 2002

Found on a write-able CD archive disc, I can’t remember why I called it that. Corel Painter.

SFMOMA Tickets

At the beginning of the third millennium CE, people still disengage from the network to do things in so-called real time. Colorfully printed strips of paper such as these afford entry to places of recreation and amusement.

Picasso: Seated Woman Poster

Now through the end of the month you have time to see Picasso and American Art, a San Francisco exhibit showing Picasso’s influence on contemporaneous American artists. On view are a range of works from Picasso to Pollack.

Allow me to interpret this painting, since the subject may not be obvious. In it, the artist tenderly embraces a seated model. That’s Picasso’s head in profile, on the right. Get it? No?

Cubist Study

I was able to capture one photo, before security dutifully advised me that taking pictures was not allowed! I believe this study was done in 1906-1907, around the time of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The influence of Cézanne is apparent. Picasso had transitioned to cubism, and it was works such as these that introduced him into American consciousness.

Thunder and Lightning Both Arrive

Thunder and Lightning Biting Through

Cellular

More digital paint.

Energetics 1

Energetics 2

Pure digital paint.

“The high-energy scattering experiments of the past decades have shown us the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the particle world in the most striking way. Matter has appeared in these experiments as completely mutable. All particles can be transmuted into other particles; they can be created from energy and can vanish into energy. In this world, classical concepts like elementary particle, material substance or isolated object, have lost their meaning; the whole universe appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns.”
- The Tao of Physics, 1975

atomic photography

Scanning tunneling microscopy, courtesy IBM Almaden Research Center

Here’s a photo of impurity atoms on copper. At this level things look stable and orderly (see STM image gallery), but deeper, it’s all energy: the so-called quantum fluctuations that are weirdly influenced by humans. If you can’t tell what kind of atoms are forming in my "Energetics" paintings, maybe it’s because you haven’t decided yet.

Digital acrylic paint

San Jose, CA.