Artist Statement

Natural order infuses several levels of both worlds: some determined by man and some determined by nature. It guides our understanding of big data sets related to network analysis, whether we employ physical analogies of the data, render the data graphically and explore them ‘by eye’ or interact in real time. Acutely aware of order, I examine what technological and human worlds have in common. Natural order, revealed randomly and regularly, infuses several levels of both worlds. My task is to juxtapose the regularity of nature with man's constructions, both physical and intellectual. The big city images, for example, combine how humans affect their environment, and at the same time, how a city metaphor reflects rhythm and organization of big data sets, and makes data mining easier. Observers — whether artists or technology experts — perceive such relationships from different perspectives and points of view.

I aim to develop messages using sets of images that become symbols, in a way similar to the sets of words constructing sentences. Same images gain different meaning in various contexts.

My computer graphics explorations serve as a point of departure for a series of prints or sculptures. I explore the dynamic factor of line. I transform an image of an animal into a simple image, an iconic object such as rocking horse or a symbolic picture of a bird, to present them in dynamic movement as the visible texture of the sky and the ground. In our visual planes of multiple horizons, every time we see the familiar image on the floor of ground and the wall of sky, soft and hard inhabitants sharing lots and acres; we see them as having common goals, and joining tasks.

Some of these explorations have resulted in figurative three-dimensional designs based on an image of transformed manikin that served as a point of departure for a prints and sculptures. The repetition of human figures, depersonalized for the purpose of fulfilling the goal, has been put into the ordered, endless landscape. I have unified the meaning of human and a landscape using the same approach: rigid order created with a computer.

Processes in nature and events in technology inspire my images. Such processes also support my instruction in computer art and graphics, where students learn to create artwork inspired by science and demonstrate what they understand of scientific concepts.

Technical Statement

Typically, my creation process runs through several stages. First I draw abstract geometric designs for executing my computer programs. I use the computer on different levels. Some of my computer programs produce two dimensional images; others are three — depending on my composition's final dictates. Then I add photographic content using scanners and digital cameras. The programs that produce two-dimensional artwork serve as a point of departure for photolithographs and photo silkscreened prints on canvas and paper. They are included both into my two-dimensional and three-dimensional works.  All of these approaches are combined for image creation with the use of painterly markings.

For three-dimensional works, computer programs make representations of masses in a vector mode that shape my wooden and mixed media sculptures. Later, the 3D wireframe designs guide construction of wooden and mixed media sculptures. I often incorporate the factor of time into the sculpture, giving the viewer the illusion of movement. I also develop time-based media.