2019
2019
Pencil on paper
h54"x w84" each of two
In the first drawing, bits of information, in this case melancholic portraits, create peacefulness and tranquility of the entire image. Portraits vary from 1mm to 1cm in size. Anything that exists, reality, only exists by the virtue of the mutual information it shares with other objects in the Universe, as information theory explains. Each bit/portrait defines and shapes the space of the other. Collectively, bits define the whole, yet when observing the entire image the well defined bits become unperceivable. Just the same, when observing the bits a tranquil perception of the entire imagery is not perceivable any longer. Even if the bit defines the whole, a bit is unlike the whole.
In the second drawing, portraits are blank. The space for information is present, but the information itself is not. Even though the information within the space is unknown, it is blank, the entirety of the image is fully comprehensible. How do we perceive the space of the missing information within the bits? Do we project previously perceived portraits, or are we capable of creating new perceptions? How different, if any, is our perception of the whole depending on our knowledge of the parts? By knowing a bit can we automatically claim the knowledge of the whole?
55,000 portraits and 95,000 blank portraits; there is more of the unknown then of the known.
24 individual pieces
Watercolor and pencil on paper
12"x5" each
Based on the UNICEF fact:
An estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age die, or 17,260 per day, or 1 every 5 seconds, mostly of preventable causes, according to mortality estimates released by UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Division and the World Bank Group.
h8 x w5 each
.13 rapidograph on paper
Each of 100 panels is 19" x 19"
Pencil on paper
Process: Each of 100 panels is filed with portraits drawn by web of layered lines, erasing, and rebuilding them with more layering. Each portrait defines another. Each panel is drawn individually. Each panel is part of the whole piece and only perceived as such. Just like we are shaped by those around us, we are part of the group, and groups create the whole of humanity.