ACQUIRED!: CRISPR ROUTR

This 40 x 30” work is off to a collection.

It’s from the ‘genetically modified’ CRISPR painting series where the visual genes — strips sliced from separately made paintings or painted post-cutting — are recombined (interleaved or spliced) to create a new painting. This particular piece has thousands and thousands of individual strips, and was created during an art residency at the Banff Centre. For this particular work, individual slices and whole sections were dipped in ink and then interleaved. Later the work was sanded to give it a sun-bleached or aged look.

The work reveals subtle details with close or repeated viewing — tectonic fissures, rough edging, horizontal striations. (Kinda like viewing a linear mandala or a zen garden, or wave sets on the ocean, or a waterfall that appears constant but changes when close up…