A collection of encyclopedia volumes altered into pop-up bird field guides about the Passenger Pigeon, a species that went from being one of the most abundant birds in the world to extinction in 1914. Each pop-up book compares appropriated images of a pigeon with encyclopedia articles, questioning their own relevance and existence. This project was a childish attempt to conjure memories of something we can no longer experience, to re-animate what has dissappeared, what is missing.
Two site specific sound installations of abandoned and boarded up crawl spaces were created for “Not to Scale”, the Smoke Farm Lo-Fi Arts festival. Together they try to recreate childhood memories of prohibited passages into an underground labyrinth of tunnels, connecting ideas and spaces across great distances. A series of sacred spaces that one could hide away prized possessions/reconnect/bury their past.
International District Tunnel in Seattle, WA
Smoke Farm Tunnel in Arlington, WA
Photos by Cindy Apple (1-3) and Timothy Firth (4-5)
Time lapse of building the “tunnel”
First video in a series of meditations on being present by destroying attachment to the past.
A series of works on paper that examine my childhood fears, hazing, adventures, and other distorted nostalgy.
For over 60 days I tried to gather statistics about my mood and a number of factors that I felt impacted it. In an attempt to correlate these two things I would draw and color a self portrait depending on how I felt and keep a tally of the different variables that could affect these moods. These variables included: hours of sleep I had, number of alcoholic drinks, cups of coffee, days since I last had sex, negative thoughts about myself, minutes of mediation, and minutes of exercise. From this data I created a number of stacked area graphs showing the distribution of these feelings by color in regards to each variable over the course of this social experiment. All of the graphs and portraits I collected can be seen on the Quantifying Contentment website.
So Timothy and I decided to retire the old Industrial Dinosaur name, and start a new studio/artist collective called Thought Experiment. Come check out our studios on the 2nd floor of Inscape in Seattle’s Chinatown or check out the new website: http://thawt.it
Clear as a Bell from Eric John Olson on Vimeo.
I created this series of drawings in an attempt to play with the idea of how removing ones hair and clothing creates a space that blurs the lines of gender and individuality, and in response accentuates vulnerability and interconnectedness.
‘Prairie Children’ by the Majestic Esoteric (http://jeseric.tumblr.com)
This is the first in a series of scavenger hunt documentations.
