Cuts, 2009
cut paper
8 x 10 inches
| Blue Dazzle, 2009
acrylic and xerox lithograph on paper
8 x 10 inches
| Losses, 2009
xerox lithograph collage on paper
8 x 10 inches
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Floating Diamond City, 2009
screenprint and acrylic on paper
8 x 10
| Diamond City, 2008
screenprint and thread on paper
8 x 10
| Deconstructed Diamond City, 2008
collage and gouache on paper
8 x 10
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| Shatter Shimmer, 2009 (click for more images) |
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This body of work uses imagery drawn from the form and structure of diamonds and cut stones as a stand-in for a kind of dazzling architecture of facets, shards, sparkle, mirrored surfaces, refracted light. These engineered icons of ideal beauty, and symbols of undying commitment are dissected, exploded, reordered, mapped and reconstructed as if they were architectural specimens.
Another influence on this work is the practice of Dazzle Camouflage painting used by US and British navies during World War I. Dazzle did not conceal the ship but made it difficult for the enemy to estimate its speed and direction purely by visual confusion. The use of bright contrasting colors and geometric abstraction would create a visual distortion that misled the enemy.
This series combines notions of the beauty and “dazzle” of diamonds with confusion/illusion and distortion.
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