This is an ongoing project inspired by the "reference trihedron" of the Musique Concréte composer Pierre Schaeffer which valued frequency, duration and intensity. Musique Concréte also favored prerecorded sounds to make compositions with, in the early days, analog tape.

Obsolescence is important to me because it signifies a certain kind of death. This is a death that happens all of the time. When we get concerned with technology, one version destroys the past. One medium is better, more accurate, and another must fade away. Or be resuscitated from the brink. In my art I spend a lot of time destroying cassettes and reconfiguring their entrails into something new. I’ll collage the tape itself and adhere the tape and peel the mylar backing off to expose only the magnetic dust into a geometric mass of information. My hope is that it enhances a sense of the uncanny in its presentation of the media as a flat surface to gaze upon so we can reconsider informational time. In this reconsideration I tend to think it can draw into question the ways with which we archive, memorialize and mourn.

All of the work centers around acts of destruction committed to commercial audio cassette tape, using the peeled lines of ferric magnetic dust, glossy black cassette tape, brightly colored leader tape and stacks of cassette tape spools. Many of the pieces divide, or impede, a motion in space. These works address the tradition abstraction by introducing corruption, decay and anti-form.

Typically one does not engage with the material of the cassette. Unless it was being eaten by a tape player, the average consumer never gazed upon its reflective spool. To this point most media requires a certain precious handling of it, the CD, DVD and LP require the listener to hold only the edge. Perhaps speaking to the ubiquity of the digital file these days, the MP3, FLAC, WAV and others have no real handling instructions. I want to focus on the surface.

DREAD MAJESTY is a series of magazine paper collages based around classic ideas of the sublime. They are attempts to confront the loss of identity in the presence of natural wonder.

STATEMENT:
The Nature of Mirror

Any Move Towards the Profane, Is a Move Towards the Sacred

In every Void there is Plenum
In every Plenum a Void.

Acts of Deconsecration are written into every Consecration

The Mundane Contains every element of the Sublime

The Abject shall be Exalted.

Veils is about the subculture of heavy metal music and the choreography of the headbang:

The Nature of Mirror

Without Music there is no Ritual
Without Ritual these is no Music

Any Move Towards the Profane, Is a Move Towards the Sacred

Where the Audience Becomes the Performers,
And the Performer the Audience

In every Void there is Plenum
In every Plenum a Void.

Acts of Deconsecration are written into every Consecration

The Mundane Contains every element of the Sublime

The Abject shall be Exalted.