Love and Eternity.

People spend way more time looking at art on the internet than they do in person.

For the moment, you may call me a one hit wonder. These are screen shots of my website's google analytics. An average day brings 5-10 visitors, and today brought 837. The spike in traffic is thanks to designboom.com, todayandtomorrow.net, notcot.org, journal-du-design.fr, smileinyourface.com, and others. They have all recently featured a sculpture I made with Mike Fleming in 2010, called Eternity.

What amazes me is that the average time spent on my site is nearly a minute and a half. This might not sound like much, but the average time people spend looking at a work of art in a gallery or museum is 4 seconds. Is the internet really making peoples' attention spans shorter, or is it allowing them to focus on one thing at a time? Which experience is more overwhelming - surfing blogs, or visiting the MoMA?

It's really hard to tell the short run from the long run.

Unreal

(An unrealized project by Felice Varini)

Half of a yay.

(a Y and half of an A on one wall, butting up against a mirror on the other wall)

Check out the anamorphic type installation  by Joseph Egan and Hunter Thompson.

'Eternity' has been featured on designboom!

designboom is the "leading independent publication for design, architecture, art, photography and graphics" since 1999. Check out their feature on Eternity (2010) here.

Hi!

A particular thing will certainly happen.

(pencil and charcoal drawing of something that I might make sometime in the future)

Today, in a nut shell.

3D Typography

Eternity was featured on the 3D Typography website!
Check out the post here.

T_XT_RT

"Red Sky at Night" by Tim Etchells

"Nah/Yep" by Cody Hoyt

"Unlimited Promise" by Christine Wong Yap

(These works and more were featured in the T_XT_RT exhibition at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in NY)

Journey, 2008

9" x 12" x 10" (installation dimensions variable)

video of rapid eye movement, digital picture frame, battery pack, cardboard box

A video of my eyes watching the world go by continuously plays on the digital picture frame inside the cardboard box. The box can be shipped or installed in various ways.

Fun things happen when you meet in the middle.

(photos made in collaboration with Mike Fleming)

Mechanical drawings

Radiating Cylinder Yellow Profile and Kaleidoscope Cylinder, 2008 by James Bills

Barely legible.

("Soapy Smith" by Edward Ruscha)

(when does text stop looking like words and start looking just like dots and lines?)

The way of progress is a disappearing path.

("The way of Progress" by Nathaniel Shapiro
and "Disappearing Paths" by Richard William Wheater)

Obliteration

(from Stefan Bruggemann's "Obliteration Series")

Live and Die

by Bruce Nauman (1984)

The Plastic Box

The following three photographs have been chosen for an exhibition titled "The Plastic Box," at Elon University in North Carolina. "A national juried exhibition exploring the proliferation of toy cameras, pinhole camera kits, how-to manuals for alternative photographic processes and the non-digital point of view of artists bucking 21st century trends."

Exhibition dates: August 22, 2011 to Nov.16, 2011
Public reception: Monday, September 5, 2011, 5:30-6:30

Equation, 2011

12" x 60" x 2"
neon, plywood

oh, yes!

(by Nick van Woert)

Truth is not told. It is a whole, and language fragments it; it is necessary, and languages are arbitrary.

(title is from "The Ignorant Schoolmaster" by Jacques Rancier)