sketchscape

ON NO

landscape, mixed media, 13" x 19"

K.I.A. 2012

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'Twere, Mirror

"Twere, Mirror", 14" x 10", mixed media. K.I.A. 2012

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untitled by K.I.A.

untitled, mixed media, 40" x 30"
K.I.A. 2012
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© Kirby Ian Andersen 2012

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untitled by K.I.A.

untitled, mixed media, 40" x 30"
K.I.A. 2012
more art by K.I.A. at www.nu4ya.com

© Kirby Ian Andersen 2012

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ardent silver amour

"Argent Silk Armor" by K.I.A. 2011 (different light) more at: www.nu4ya.com

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five thousand paratemporal feet

46" x 30" x 5000' -K.I.A. 2012
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Past Lives, Recombinant Personalities & Divination Inclinations

Added a narrative bio for K.I.A. re: past-lives,  R.E.M. paintings, remixable sculptures, and one's brain as the receiver of a uniquely broadcast personality.

Keith Haring, George Michaels and Sheryl Crow make cameo appearances, as does Janet Cardiff and some Japanese guy. Read the bio here: http://www.nu4ya.com/bio.html

EXCERPT: 

“I hated landscapes. So I started doing them.” Sort of. A sampling: a birch forest, made of a morse-coded poem, along with secretarial shorthand; a pastoral scene slyly acknowledging four Canadian art-giants, organic shapes undercut with minimalism; a glorious greeting-card landscape of a rainbow over a farm, translated into thousands of scintillating squares via 18th century Jacquard-cards (the precursor to computer programming). “I’d had some interesting experiences where it became clear that the brain or body was not the seat of the soul but was more like a receiver, or translator, of something bigger. Reality was something we each decoded. I wanted to express that.” 

He’d received an energy-healing at a meditation class that completely fixed an old eye injury from  karate. He also had a profound psychic reading. “I was told of this woman living this muddy, mundane pioneer life on the prairies, sod home and all. Her big creative outlet was was to hang the laundry, woo-hoo, and read the one book the family owned, over and over.” There was a fire, they lost the book. The woman was so despondent that her kids gave her blank pages to rewrite it from memory, which ultimately led to writing her own original stories, which were eventually widely-read. “That pioneer woman was me. This stranger had zeroed-in on my appreciation for writing, abhorrence for housework, and avoidance of anything cowboy.” 

But what really resonated was the description of the laundry: the woman expressing herself by creatively hanging the piles of washed clothes in colorful and interesting patterns on the line. “Months later, I was describing the reading to a curator who’d come over to see my work, and it hit me -- we were, at that moment, looking at colorful and interesting patterns of panels, hung in long lines.”  Embedded in the past-life story was a description of his recombinant painting-installations, which were very, very specific to him. The idea that the soul was an infinite thing, and that each lifetime was just a part of the whole -- like pieces of a collage, like panels in a painting, like paintings in a giant ‘super-work’ -- echoed his art...

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MQ CQ

"MQ CQ" -K.I.A., 2012

waveform forest & soundclouds 

final. detail view.

60" x 54"

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Conqrete Musique

Scores (violin phase also radiohead) and scores (15,000+ hand-etched in.) Scratches (notation) and scratching (remixing of images). 

Music made physical: the “forest” are waveforms, taken from soundcloud, of songs with...

more at:  Conqrete Musique

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Pretty Rainbow Over Farm

8' x 6', oilstick on aluminum, by K.I.A., 2012. Landscape converted into Jacquard card code, and hand-drawn. (More art at http://www.nu4ya.com )

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LOOM CODE: "Pretty Rainbow Over Farm"

A glorious double-rainbow captured over a beautiful country farm, as information; the photo was translated via email (by a helpful textile company in the eastern-bloc) into extensive Jacquard-card code; the thousands of squares were then hand-drawn/scratched/sanded/redrawn etc in metallic oilsticks on shaped aluminum. (BTW: Jacquard cards were punch cards used in mechanical looms from the 1800s; they eventually led to the invention of computers.) So: part of a series exploring the idea that there are other layers of reality behind what's seen, and that a shift in consciousness can reveal them. Also: prosaic title on purpose.

"Pretty Rainbow Over Farm", 96" x 60" (8" dow to 6" relief on the 4 curves), oilstick on aluminum, K.I.A. 2012. (Detail shot, from second angle, to show how the painting changes according to the light.)

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music thoughtz

Stopping sleep, collapsing time hummingbirds, eyeah allelujah http://www.nu4ya.com/K.I.A._-_Art/news/Entries/2009/1/15_Entry_1.html
(and more ideas behind the Shinjuku Zulu and K.I.A. songs, now posted on the art site.)

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The Map Is Not That

“The Map is Not the Territory”, 84” x 60”, oilstick on folded & distressed aluminum, by K.I.A., 2012, (Detail shot).  See full image & ideas-behind here at the K.I.A. homesite/blog: 

http://www.nu4ya.com/K.I.A._-_Art/news/Entries/2012/2/14_The_Map_is_Not_the_Territory.html

"Navigational and star charts, satellite shots, gps, glyphs and geography. Photons and suns. Flatness vs. vastness, circles against grids, “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”...

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<3 )( RX

"<3 )( RX" oilstick on aluminum, 24 " x 36" x 6". K.I.A. 2012. Upsetting the sets...a 2D Venn diagram on 50 panels, hung 3D; iphoto'd at owner's. 

(See also in this series: Accelration / Still  , 12' x 6' x 300 panels)

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Or, our gone, go.

Origami ourorboros & dragon algorithms & etched quetz &: http://www.nu4ya.com/K.I.A._-_Art/news/Entries/2012/1/20_Or%2C_our_gone%2C_go...

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