13.5" x 13.5" x 12" (Individual Object)
What does it say?
Ultra is a reflection of hope, of breath holding, of loss. I became a father to my daughter two years ago. Before her birth and after there was life and possible futures, and then there wasn’t. My wife and I hold those sadnesses together and separately. This work is about processing and honoring. To connect with this work, the viewer must sink in, adjust the focus of your eyes, study and shift. They work to discover the poetry is a labor of connection, an intimate moment between artist and viewer.
I developed a new way of programming the printer for this piece. I wrote an algorithm that takes a gray scale image and translates the gray value as a number. That number is translated into a speed. When the printer moves faster the glass forms a thinner wall. When it moves slower it instead forms a thicker wall. For this work gray values become instructions to the printer about speed and the result is different thicknesses of glass.
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