Appetite

This item also occurred to me while reading Tret'iakov. It's pretty blatant, and probably even counts as bad art. . .

Blue Bench

The Autumn number of the quarterly, October, contains a number of articles written in the thirties by Sergei Tret'iakov, notable proponent of the Russian Factography movement. In one of the articles, he uses this fragment of text to condense all romantic revolutionary literature.

Bionic Eye Saga Continues

I have uploaded more images of the bionic eye sculpture (originally posted on the 30th of December) at www.geocities.com/duncpatt

All These Are Possible

This is a study for later work.

Violence in the Media

This is a collage I completed recently. The silhouette is of Sean Connery as James Bond. The other image is a photo taken by a journalist in Palestine during recent riots. The point is to juxtapose the very real violence that confuses us so in the representative media with the way in which we conceive of violence in the media of fantasy.

BeforeBecomingBeing

Here is a sketch I whipped up recently as a study for a triptych painting. It's pretty cheesy, so I decided not to make it, but the sketch is still worth looking at.


The point behind this painting was to be to imagine that we became so independent of our sensory organs that we lost them entirely. At a conference I was at a couple of weekends ago, one of the speakers talked about the 'practical' telepathy afforded by cellular phones. I thought this was really interesting. He also spoke about researchers who seriously envision telecommunication implants in the throat and ears as a possibility in the near future. This would literally allow us to communicate sub-vocally.

FeedbackLoop

I've finally got the old scanner up and running. Here's a diagram that I made recently concerning the question of how architects and designers can engage the world around them. . .