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Digital fingerpainting on iPhone of 3d installation NDF rendered in charcoal & silver graphite by hand on paper by K.I.A., 30 x 24"... Last work of 2010...

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Snowglyph

Drawing by walking for a few hours.

Uploaded right from the lake.

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kinetic madcap wasp's nests

GLOBE & MAIL REVIEW of "& hypersculpture &" artworks by K.I.A.: kinetic madcap sculptures & acceleration still; a write-up in Canada's national newspaper (scroll down to photo): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/rm-vaughan/a-dizzying-reminder-of-the-fate-of-words-in-the-e-book-age/article1833153/

(or see the work & virtual artist's talk directly at: http://www.nu4ya.com/K.I.A._-_Art/news/news.html )

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acceleration: x-1 injunjetenjuns gl((o))w

Part Two... 

The iridescent blue and opalescent white object on the right is “Acceleration / Still...” It’s a 2D-3D-4D artwork: a 27’ x 16’ flat painting, hung sculpturally, and recombinant over time. 

The painting is of a (flat) butterfly wing composed of (2D) airplane blueprints. The nearly 300 aluminum panels on which it’s painted are also very flat: 1’ x 1.5’ x 1/16th of an inch, and arranged around a metal infrastructure, which itself is a large 2D line drawing (of a  jet fighter spliced with a butterfly,) broken up and hung three-dimensionally. The original sculptural configuration of the panels is a  cocoon / fuselage. 

I’ve never seen the beginning of the work: the painting had to be done in sections, and due to its size, I’ve never assembled the flat image whole. 

I’ll never see the ending of the work: because it’s never finished. It is infinitely remixable -- the painting could be erected as a cube, hung like a blanket on the wall, stacked on the floor like a house of cards, vertically packed in a column, have individual panels suspended like drops in a huge pixelated storm... or it could become subsumed into a much larger intermixing of previous and future works.

This work is primarily about shifting potentials and coexisting opposites (linear/random, fast/slow, destructive/creative, masculine/feminine, industrial/organic, hard/soft, loud/quiet,) but there are many more ideas behind “A / S” (click HERE to read some of them); however transformation and evolution is a central theme: the dimensional-progression description is used to suggest that there is more to our experience than just our physical world... a 2D blueprint is the potential 3D object is the possible map for 4D existence which is a template for a 5D reality which... (Hmm. Or the reverse -- ...5D downstepped is the 4D, whose shadow is 3D, which casts the 2D shape, which...)

Anyway, here’s the full title of the work, which is a haiku:

“Acceleration

still; Cocooned escapes, you, me;

X-1 Papillons”

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Next to “A/S” is a small black and silver painting on canvas, entitled  “--. --- - .... .. -.-. / - . . .--. . .  “. It also uses information as a metaphor for more-going-on (a higher reality?) than just what we experience immediately through our senses; it’s a calligraphic abstract image derived from maps, wave sets, morse code and other data. Larger view HERE.

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The large black and white painting on four canvases, “X-1 Papillons,” looks like graffiti (which I used to do), but is actually a “frottage” of the interior of “Acceleration / Still”. I took that sculpture’s infrastructure line-drawing when it was laid out two-dimensionally on the ground, placed canvas over it, and painted the raised surfaces. I rearranged the line drawing (done in metal pipes) underneath many times, and painted some more, x 50. Hidden in the mass of lines you’ll see the outline of the body of the jet, as well as the butterfly wings. (You may however, also see Elvis, Jesus, or the Face on Mars, depending upon your disposition.) 

                                   

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The second easel to the left is a linear mandala. It’s a complex number of layers of varying degrees of gloss, matte and transparent mochas and mauves on aluminum; it shifts in appearance according to the light, and references raked lines in a zen garden, bar codes, shell patterns, city grids and so on. Bigger image HERE.

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“injunjetenjuns”, higher up on the wall, is a jet engine totem pole, a haida space shuttle. As I was looking at dozens and dozens of aircraft schematics while researching “A / S”, I kept seeing tribal art, specifically masks. (Full disclosure: I attribute this to past lives. More on that in another post.) This grew into a series of pieces, ongoing, in different media: injunjetenjuns; My Anjat Anjun; A Furican Jatunjan, Freak As Obstruct Machismo.

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The silver sculpture (tree via Canadian Tire media, or dendrite-by-pipe) at the far left is another view of “TreeBoltNeuron”, which is discussed more HERE with a panoramic view HERE. There is also a speed-collage video of it on Youtube.

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Just to the right of “A/S”, not pictured, (see below) is “(((o)))”; 5’ x 5’, iridescent, phosphorescent and opalescent paint on aluminium; it looks completely different depending upon the viewer’s physical perspective. From the front, it’s pearlescent with silver, with a subtle pattern of circles; from the side it’s banded blue/lavender and the grid is emphasized; as you move around the work, the silvers catch the light and flash and flare differently; and at night, for a few moments after the lights are off, it glows, beautiful for a moment, before it goes.

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(Part One and Two posted under "News" at http://www.nu4ya.com )

Contact for viewings of artwork by K.I.A....

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3D graffiti, tectonic remixes, Canadian Tire art, and pointy things...

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The work:

-”N>D>F” (3 seguing objects, 200+ times, multiple reads)

-”TreeBoltNeuron” (3D graffiti, conveyed via Canadian Tire materials)

-”PoMaSta” (3 paintings spliced together )

-"re(d)one" (a tectonic remix of it)

Studio installation with alternative lighting...

More art & ideas-behind at: http://www.nu4ya.com/K.I.A._-_Art/news/news.html

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Re(d)one

Re(d)one by K.I.A. 5' x 5' acrylic on aluminum

remixing dna, red one redone...

Also: new website for K.I.A. art w/images, ideas-behind (see 'News' section) etc here: http://www.nu4ya.com

Lightning bolt/banyan tree/brain neuron installations, rhythm collages, recombinant sculptures, and more....

another splice:

genetically modified:

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El Anatsui & Mui (or "How I Architected A Crustacean)

Old news made new news in light of the recent El Anatsui retrospective... Here are some images from an exhibition I did in April 2002, with component works made between 1995-2001. The below piece is a 30' x 11' x 3' wall hanging made from 200 recycled aluminum panels, and consists of a Masai shield composed from mathematical formulae, a musical glyph made from multi-era musical notation, a Polynesian mask containing Victorian text & imagery, leaves created from a Whitman "Leaves of Grass" facsimile, and a line collage from found imagery. The panels are connected by nuts & bolts, and the entire work is rearrangeable... in this version, kinda looking like machined marine life, an architected crustacean...

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So each work stands alone but gets added to the collective; new paintings join the ongoing, never completed, massively growing mosaic.

Here's an earlier version of the above, around '99/2000:
http://nu4ya.posterous.com/mechanical-chrysanthemum-by-kia-5-intermixed

Here's a current configuration:
http://nu4ya.posterous.com/artccretion

Here's a new painting ( 27' x 16' flat, but here arranged sculpturally) that at some point will be intermixed into the whole:
http://nu4ya.posterous.com/hypersculpture-2d-3d-4d-remixable-paintingscu

And here's a link to El Anatsui:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Anatsui

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A Furican Jatunjan

"A Furican Jatunjan" by K.I.A. 2010

33" x 25" silver graphite on paper

African mask jet engine, drawing/study for later larger; part of ongoing series (see links below)

See also:
"My Anjat Anjan": http://nu4ya.posterous.com/my-anjetenj-an
"Injunjetenjun": http://nu4ya.posterous.com/jet-engine-totem-pole-haida-space-shuttle-by

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gl((((o))))w

Night-time, and early evening, shots of ((((o)))) just to show another example of the transient visual changes in the work.

See the previous post "((((o))))" ( http://nu4ya.posterous.com/o ) for day-time shots of other changes...

((((o))))  by K.I.A., 2010. 5' x 5' acrylic on aluminum, showing some of the phosphorescence. (Ongoing series.)

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((((o))))

((((o)))) by K.I.A. 2010. 5' x 5' acrylic on aluminum. (Ongoing series.)

Iridescent opalescent phosphorescent impermanent effervescence. (Maybe add some luminescence, incandescence and a sense of transcendence into that nonsense.)

Due to the media's multiple reflections, refractions and phosphorescence, the painting changes moment to moment according to the lighting and viewer's shifting perspective, elements ghosting in and out of sight. The panels are also interchangeable, so the central image also transforms over time....

A later post will show a night-shot of the work.

((((o)))) by K.I.A. 2010

((((o)))) by K.I.A., 2010, different light.

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Zamboni'd Mandala

Mandala made straight n smooth in mocha and mauve... a linear zen garden / architected seashell / aluminum redwood / mathematical ocean wave set / raked data; layers and layers of mattes & glosses that luminesce differently according to the light and changing viewer postion : silvers flash, textures darken, lines 'glow', deeper layers unveil...

Data mandala IV, 4' x 5', burnt sienna, burnt umber, burnt purple acrylic on aluminum, by K.I.A. (ongoing series)

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"01010VA" (installed in its new home)

"01010VA" by K.I.A. 2009, acrylic on recombinant aluminum panels

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rainbowbeau

caught at cottage:

©K.I.A. 2010

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"Freak As Obstruct Machismo"

"Freak As Obstruct Machismo"  by K.I.A., 2010

 33" x 24", graphite on archival paper

(African mask, turbojet schematics, linear tribal/digital silver scarring.)

Detail:

Title: "afroturbo mask schematics", anagramed...

See more of this series: 

My Anjat Anjan - K.I.A.

jet engine totem pole / haida space shuttle by K.I.A. - K.I.A.

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MY ANJETENJ AN

"My Anjetenj An" -K.I.A. 2010

60" x 40", mounted on aluminium

Continuing the tribal/schematics series... see also "Injunjetenjuns": jet engine totem pole / haida space shuttle by K.I.A. - K.I.A.   

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Double-stack Recombo (No, that's not a Starbucks order).

Intermix, 10' x 5', for the studio...

-K.I.A. 2010

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--. --- - .... .. -.-. / - . . .--. . .

-K.I.A. 2010 mixed media on canvas

detail angle

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last ice + old ash + some stone + small shells = sculpture

Site-specific spontaneous sculpture made with the last lake ice of the season, beach stones, ash, and tiny shells. 

with ash & shells...

-K.I.A. (2010)

(Photographed in February with an iPod nano)

See also this wood x water x wind artwork (much larger): a wood x water x wind artwork... - K.I.A.

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Nature Not As In

"Nature Not As In" 

-K.I.A., 2010

Silver graphite on paper, 33" x 25"  (Continuing series...)

Seeing code and sad music. (Braille + fractured forest)

"For I have learned to look on nature, / not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, / but hearing oftentimes the still, / sad music of humanity."  -Wordsworth

Sister drawing to "I'll Prance Some, Dance Some" (sound code/piano roll + hand-drawn digitally fractured nature scene: "I'll Prance Some Dance Some" - K.I.A. )

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"I'll Prance Some Dance Some" (digital digits & analog digits)

"I'll Prance Some Dance Some"
-K.I.A., 2010, silver graphite on paper, 33" x 25"
Visual image as code (on-site photo of trees, digitally manipulated) + sound as code (on-site found 1930s piano roll) hand-drawn as linear bits using my analog digits. My version of a landscape.
(Continuing the location code/drawing series as I gear up for the next massive recombinant sculpture/installation (500 panels.)

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Wood Code &...

Made from site-specific found codes: vintage map, piano roll, termite trail...
Graphite on paper, 30" x 22"
-K.I.A. 04/10

continuing the series

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Recombinant Art... & Rashomon

Remixable art, microsampling, recontextualizing & groundhogdayism... ; )
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Shinjuku+Zulu/blog/676053397

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cubist crystalline collage cocoon continued...

New angle of the 2d/3d/4d reconfigurable sculpture "...F-1 Papillons". 27' x16' painting on 288 panels, reconfigured here sculpturally into a 12' cocoon. Size variable. Lepidoptera wing composed of aircraft blueprints. By K.I.A. 2009

See other views: "Acceleration / still..." - K.I.A.  and Hypersculpture: 2D, 3D, 4D Remixable Painting/Sculpture/Installation; the haiku-entitled, cocoon/cockpit-shaped, 8m-X-4.5m artstravaganza "F-1 Papillons" (exclamation point)- Another View - K.I.A.

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Unshackling Sterling Superdubiousness

Unshackling Sterling Superdubiousness

silver graphite on folded paper, 40" x 26", K.I.A. 2010

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polyVictorian + Masaimatical = Masai-Victorian (2 paintings spliced together...) by K.I.A.

intermix of two paintings, "Polyvictorian" (victorian era text & imagery inside a polynesian mask, green) and "Masaimatical" (african shield composed of math equations, red) to create a third multi-layered work...

masaivictorian -K.I.A. 2010

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"Kiss the Honey, Honey" heard on "The Buried Life" wedding crashers episode 2

"Kiss the Honey, Honey" by Shinjuku Zulu (http://www.itunes.com/shinjukuzulu ) heard on the hit MTV show eps. 2...

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mayanjetenjan

Continuing a series...

"mayanjetenjan" by KIA, 2010
silver ink on paper 48" x 36"

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Slow Is the New Fast

just for the slow of it ... (& in case you missed it the last time)... finally fine print not to be afraid of... watch it fast, watch it by pausing....

speedreaders of the world unite...

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a wood x water x wind artwork...

...made to disappear with the weather... 8' x 4' x 3'

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by K.I.A. 2010

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