Continuing my series of performative prints created by traversing the landscape with desktop scanners, for Autumnal Tints I imaged-with trees on the Milwaukee Lakefront during the Fall season. Each multi-panel / modular work is on high gloss metal – where the ink is heated into a gas, then pressed into porous aluminum, creating a sheen not unlike a computer screen. They are mounted and framed, floating and without glass, in wood boxes.

In my ongoing series of “Compressionism” prints, I strap a desktop scanner, computing device and custom battery pack to my body, and perform images into existence. I might scan in straight, long lines across tables, tie the scanner around my neck and swing over flowers, do pogo-like gestures over bricks, or just follow the wind over water lilies in a pond. The dynamism between my body, technology, and the landscape is transformed into beautiful and quirky renderings, which are then produced as archival artworks.

Here site and technology – their limitations, possibilities and potentials – take greater agency in the constitution and construction of printed forms. My movements alongside those of the foliage, gadgets, and ground, my relations to life and gravity, what I see and cannot see, leaves and bugs, breathing and the wind, all affect and are affected in and as these images, being made. Each print enfolds time and space, sensation and action, inviting questions around the impacts of water and land, life and non-life, that we perform with every day: as individuals, as bodies, and as a people.

documentation of previous scanner work

Autumnal Tints was created for a solo exhibition at the James Watrous Gallery, the Wisconsin Academy for Sciences, Arts, and Letters, in Madison, Wisconsin as part of their funded programming. Full size images and sizing can be viewed on flickr.