The Deep Field Series

Illuminated Works 

Artista Bottega St Paul, MN 

April 2nd- 30th 2016

Exhibition Statement 

Between December 18 and 28, 1995 the Hubble Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera focused in a section of the sky with very few stars. 342 images from the 10 day period were compiled to give us the earliest images of the universe.

The striking images that the Hubble has given us has inspired me for as long I have seen them. Those images give us a greater understanding of our universe galaxy and our plant. They also give more to question and understand. 

“When I reach for the edge of the universe, I do it knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson Natural History Magazine, July 1996

Artist Statment

“We try to have a set of rules that are the intersection between achievable and audacity.”

-Peter Diamandis XPRIZE foundation founder on the oringal Xprize

They are building in order to think

- Tim Brown

Making things has always been a part of the human experience. We, as a society, have lost the collective skills that used to be part of daily life and we have relegated making and repair objects to a select group of people. We have become distant from how things are made and maintained.

We are highly dependent upon objects but these objects are functionally become abstract and intangible to us. The internet and software exist in the “cloud” ever prevalent in our lives but they do not exist in the physical world.

My work is about making and doing, even if my objects don’t. I like ideas that take a physical form that is, things that you can see, touch, smell and maybe taste. My work is a response to our social disengagement from basic craft and trade. My work is meant to excite the imagination.