Conducting Chaos, screen shots

Screen shots from "Conducting Chaos," shot last week with the help of Ben Hirt. Editing in progress...

Conducting Chaos, shot with polarized light

In looking into the mechanics of LCDs, I discovered an exciting parallel to what I was doing by shooting this video in polarized light. My hope for this video is to allude to the torch breaking the glass from behind the screen, or "inside" an lcd monitor (which it will be displayed on). By having the glass literally between two sheets of polarized film as I heat it, I am figuratively placing myself inside the layout of the LCD, where the tempered glass stands in for the liquid crystal, and the torch for the voltage.

New work in progress, "Conducting Chaos." In this work I am applying a torch directly to 12” x 8” sheets of tempered glass. The way in which the heat is applied greatly influences the break pattern of the glass; however, there remains an equal amount of unpredictability and randomness. I am interested in this balance between the human hand influencing the material, and the ultimate reactions made by the material itself. I hope to show how something more tangible can emerge from a molecular system that is largely disorganized.