Drawing
my monogram 31 times and running them through “Conway's Game of Life.” Then turning this into a book. Signature morphed into a
petri dish or a simply-plotted map of a virtual world.
Four
Stoppages
(Extinct Megafauna) (Africa,
Australia, Madagascar, North America),
2013;
Lumber
and Paint; Each 54” x 11¼ ” x ¾”
The
green shapes are the disappearance of megafauna with the arrival of
homo
sapiens
on each of four landmasses; from left to right: Africa, Australia,
Madagascar, North America. In conversation
with Marcel Duchamp’s 3 Standard Stoppages Dealing with a
scale of time(millennia) and population/life rather than measure and meters.