“Kinetic Art.021” - Animation

The background image for this artwork is an end-view of stacked, steel reinforcing bars I found at a building supply shop in Bangkok. Graphic patterns in the environment always delight my psychic energy. The workers there were intrigued that I would shoot such a photo. But they didn’t know my final creation. I later rotated and mirrored the image to orchestrate a balanced, symmetrical canvas upon which I added a single vertical white line in the center and the whimsy of one blue and one red circle positioned with a honed eye to establish balance, hierarchy, and whimsy. Then I animated a pulsing canvas within which the re-bars shift randomly making it appear there are more than just one red and one blue circle at play. My kinetic animated creations explore motion, vibration, energy, gesture, and juxtaposition while incorporating geometric or architectonic background images captured during my travels to more than one hundred countries. Typically I employ a modular matrix grid arrangement adding occasional hand-drawn brush strokes to create designs controlled by honed visual perspectives that integrate balance and proportion with buoyancy and often a bit of humor.