Processing Progress
Much of my life has been dominated by a computer desktop. The time taken to copy files, watch renders, save files, name files, empty trash, install and restart. Hours upon hours upon days and weeks and months and years of my life interacting with these interface functions. The new artworks I've made is from the series 'Processing Progress'. As our life, our work, our daily functions tick by and are measured in desktop icons, the art gives them a voice of their own. It is the dialogue that I experience between myself and the computer. These icons, which date back to old operating systems, have been redrawn and coupled with their own messages. As I create I am conscious that my actions are being calculated and processed. And most times they are measured in time, just like our lives are.
'Life In Progress'
An average life of 80 years is portrayed from birth to death in thirty seconds. It seems life truly is too short.
Video 3000 x 3000 pixels @ 24fps. 30 seconds
Edition of 240 with each edition accompanied by a unique single frame (3000 x 3000 pixels) with a separate token.
Artist reserves Edition 239.
'Life In Progress' Frame 1
'Life In Progress' Frame 133
'Life In Progress' Frame 40
'Life In Progress' Frame 179
'Desktop Doubts'
6 Drawings.
Created interface graphics over original backgrounds.
3000x3000 pixels
'Empty Trash'
Emptying the trash causes pause for thought. Why does it ask me if I'm sure? Insecurity kicks in and more often than not the process is put off for another time. The trash I imagine is not just what exists on the desktop but also what exists in my life.
Video 3000 x 3000 pixels @24fps. 25 sec
And single TIFF still drawing 3000 x 3000 pixels
'Empty Trash' Drawing
'Render Betrayal'
For any motion graphic designer, they would know the pain in rendering. This piece speaks to all of them. Many nights I have watched a slow blue line cross the screen only to end with the computer betraying me by crashing.
Video. 3000 x 3000 pixels @24fps. 35 sec
And 5 x TIFF unique drawings 3000 x 3000 pixels
'Render Betrayal' Frames 254, 308, 368, 373, 569)
Endless Waiting
How many days of our lives are spent waiting for spinning icons to stop spinning? How do we measure that level of anxiety?
2 x Video loops. 3000 x 3000 pixels @24fps. 10 sec each
'Moody Mac
There's no guarantee how my computer will start up on any given day.
Each prints. 60cm x 60cm. High gloss Giclee
'Final FINAL new'
The universal evolution of naming a file.
Video. 6000 x 2000 pixels @24fps. 40 sec
'Emptying the Earth'
We're treating the earth like a trash. In time we will have emptied it of everything, including us.
Still. 5906 × 4556 pixels.
Video: 3300 x 2500 pixels ,24fps, 1 minute.