“You Monster” — mixed media performance piece (plotter, ink, paint, paper)
About
I delight in making art with machines.
My work lives where systems become physical. Sometimes that means a pen plotter drawing with slow precision. Sometimes it means a light sculpture translating ocean conditions into color and brightness. I build and tune processes, then watch what happens when the real world gets involved. Tiny variables, friction, drift, material, timing, start to show up as personality. I’m not chasing tech for tech’s sake. I’m chasing that moment when a designed system becomes expressive.
What I create
Ocean Pulse (light sculptures driven by NOAA buoy data)
Ocean Pulse takes real-time NOAA buoy readings and turns them into light — lightwaves visualizing ocean waves. Wave direction, height, and period become a shifting, readable visual language. I built it because I wanted the presence of the ocean pulsing in my living space.
Linewright (kinetic sculptures that create art)
Linewright is my series of kinetic sculptures that create drawings. Each piece is a finished object even at rest, but it comes fully alive when activated: a purpose-built mechanism that turns motion into line. I design the system, build the machine, and set the conditions, pen, paper, constraints, and a few controllable variables. Then the work begins to author itself. No two drawings are ever the same. Small shifts in balance, friction, timing, and material become visible decisions on the page. What emerges is art that creates art: each drawing a performance and an artifact.
Generative pen plotter art (plotter, ink, paper)
I build simple rule sets and let them run long enough to reveal something. The plotter is basically a slow printer that uses a pen to make every mark honestly. No hiding, no smoothing, no undo. I like that. A finished piece is a record of process as much as an image.
Background
I come from education and hands-on making. I build makerspaces, design learning experiences, and have spent years helping people get comfortable with tools they didn’t think were “for them.” That mindset lives in my studio work too: curiosity first, then craft, then polish.
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Thank you.