paCkaged structure of bars or wires confined cage of loneliness prison cell or camp an open framework forming the compartment a structure of crossing bars or wires designed to hold something. network frame areas fenced off for security confine in or as in a cage prisonpaCkaged enclosure, pen, pound; coop, corral confine, shut in/up, coop up, fence in, immure, impound everything became a carefullypackaged opportunity
Video of the works installed at Arts Fort Worth November-December 2023
Video of painting from the paCkaged series. Painting title:
paCkaged No. 24 (left) Handmade paper, encaustic on poly-gal with LED (25.75″x 17.75″ x 3.75″)
paCkaged No. 23 Handmade paper, encaustic on poly-gal with LED (right) (17.75″x 25.75″ x 3.75″)
paCkaged No. 21 & paCkaged No. 29
paCkaged No. 25
paCkaged No.25 looped video, 7 minutes 34 seconds
paCkaged No. 49
Notes on The Works
“The brain is an extremely complex organism divided into two hemispheres with profound differences in functionality, two whole, coherent, but conflicting ways of experiencing the world. The detail-oriented left hemisphere prefers mechanisms to nature and is disposed to the egocentricity, whilst the right hemisphere has grander latitude, flexibility, and generosity. The left hemisphere is increasingly taking precedence in today’s world.” (Iain McGilchrist in The Master and His Emissary) The work uses the metaphor of Packaged /Ckaged to explore what modern western society has become in today’s world. A reflection on the way in which Beings participate in society, through a series of mechanistic egocentric packaged events curated by the information industrial complex, driven to the exclusion of serendipitous discovery. A never-ending series of packages. Be it the packages that a delivered to us, the package that “work” has placed us in. The neatly defined package that social media has placed us in. The package that politics has placed us in. These “packages” in turn become paCkage. A paCkage that is a digital panopticon. Consequential the lived experience of the human spirit has become paCkaged
The handmade paper pieces in the exhibit are made from shredded document that belong to the artist or the artist family. The shredded paper is used to form a paper pulp
The handmade cardboard piece in the exhibit are made from shredded card board package that have been used to deliver consumable goods to the artist or the artist family. The shredded cardboard is used to form a pulp that is then formed into a “cardboard” brick that typically takes 3-5 months to cure.
paCkaged No. 38 (Dalle II) and paCkaged No. 39 (Dalle II) are painting based on the image returned when a single word prompt was used in Open AIs image generator Dalle II. The image returned is the “photograph” glued to the painting
The engraved computer hard-drives in paCkaged No.19 and paCkaged No.20 are “old drives” from the artist
paCkaged No. 49 looped video 4K is a time-lapse video shot over the course of approximately 4.5 months at an interval rate of 30 seconds
Several of the paintings have “under paintings”. This is imagery on the wall side of the painting or imagery covered up by the painting itself . These include paCkaged No. 5,
paCkaged No.19, paCkaged No.20
paCkaged No. 34, paCkaged No. 35, paCkaged No. 36, paCkaged No. 42, and paCkaged No. 43.
Complete list of works in there series as of November 2023
paCkaged No. 1 Handmade paper, wood, oil paint stick and encaustic, 35.5 x 21.75 x 3.25 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 2 Handmade paper, wood, oil paint stick and encaustic, 21.75 x 35.5 x 3.25 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 3 Handmade paper, wood, oil paint stick and encaustic, 28.75 x 17.5 x 3.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 4 Handmade paper, wood, oil paint stick and encaustic, 17.5 x 28.75 x 3.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 5 Wood, cardboard. and encaustic, 27.5 x 17 x 4.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 6 Wood, charcoal and encaustic, 17x 27.5 x 4.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 7 Wood, charcoal and encaustic, 27.5 x 17 x 4.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 8 Wood, charcoal and encaustic, 17x 27.5 x 4.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 9 Wood, charcoal and encaustic, 27.5 x 17 x 4.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 10 Wood, charcoal and encaustic, 27.5 x 17 x 4.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 11 Wood, charcoal and encaustic, 17x 27.5 x 4.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 12 Wood, charcoal and encaustic, 27.5 x 17 x 4.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 13 Wood, charcoal and encaustic, 17x 27.5 x 4.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 14 Wood, charcoal and encaustic, 17x 27.5 x 4.5 inches; 2020
paCkaged No. 15 Handmade paper, wood, oil paint stick and encaustic, 21 x 13 x 3.25 inches; 2021
paCkaged No. 16 Handmade paper, wood, oil paint stick and encaustic, 13 x 21 x 3.25 inches; 2021
paCkaged No. 17 Handmade paper, wood, found object and encaustic, 34.75 x 21.5 x 4.5 inches; 2021
paCkaged No. 18 Handmade paper, wood, found object and encaustic, 21.5 x 34.75 x 4.5 inches; 2021
paCkaged No. 19 Handmade paper, wood, oil paint stick, encaustic & computer hard-drive 24 x 39 x 4 inches; 2022
paCkaged No. 20 Handmade paper, wood, oil paint stick, encaustic & computer hard-drive 39 x 24 x 4 inches; 2022
paCkaged No. 21 looped video, 6 minutes 40 seconds played back on 70 inch monitor 2022
paCkaged No. 22 surveillance video completed 2022-23
paCkaged No. 23 Handmade paper, encaustic on polygal and LED lights, 25.5 x18 x 3.5 inches; 2022
paCkaged No. 24 Handmade paper, encaustic on polygal and LED lights, 18 x 25.5 x3.5 inches; 2022
paCkaged No. 25 looped video, 7 minutes 34 seconds played back on 70 inch monitor 2023
paCkaged No. 26 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, 16.75 x 27 x 2 inches; 2022
paCkaged No. 27 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, 17 x 10.5 x 2 inches; 2022
paCkaged No. 28 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, 17 x 10.5 x 2 inches; 2022
paCkaged No. 29 looped video 6 minutes 40 seconds played back on 70 inch monitor 2023
paCkaged No. 30 Wood, encaustic on cardboard 28.5 x 48 x 3 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 31 Wood, encaustic on cardboard 48 x 28.5 x 3 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 32 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, oil paint 15 x 26 x 5 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 33 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, paracord 550 26 x 15 x 5 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 34 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, 7 x 10.5 x 2 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 35 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, 17 x 10.5 x 2 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 36 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, 16.75 x 27 x 2 inches; 2022
paCkaged No. 37 Cardboard packaging, oil paint, encaustic, wood 27.5 x 1.5 x 9 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 38 (Dalle II): Oil paint, encaustic on canvas digital print glued on to canvas 36 x 22.5 x 4 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 39 (Dalle II): Oil paint, encaustic on canvas digital print glued on to canvas 22.5 x 36 x 4 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 40 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, 20 x 35 x 5 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 41 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, metal ring, paracord 550, 35 x 20 x 5 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 42 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, mirror, paracord 550, 26 x 16 x 5 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 43 Handmade cardboard, encaustic, mirror, paracord 550, 16 x 26 x 5 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 44 Rescued picture frame, paracord 550, gift box, paint 31 x 38 x 5 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 45 Wood, oil paint, encaustic, canvas, plastic toy figures, 12 x 21.75 x 4.5 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 46 Wood, oil paint, encaustic, canvas, plastic toy figures, LED light, 21.75 x 12 x 4.5 inches; 2023
paCkaged No. 47 (HTD): Handmade paper brick, wood, encaustic dried flowers
paCkaged No. 48 (HTD): Handmade paper brick, wood, encaustic dried flowers
paCkaged No. 49 looped video looped video 33 minutes 25 seconds played back on 70 inch monitor 2023