Research (Ed Smiley)

I have made contact with my partner Jairo, but we are still working on setting up a date to meet. As an abstract painter I'm very interested in how non-visual and non-spatial ideas can be represented, as well as, of course visual ones.  

So I am looking forward to it!

For now I am concentrating on images I appropriated from his team's site, with modified scale and ratios. I printed out some on my home inkjet printer and was surprised to see that I had run out of cyan toner, so there were some possibly useful changes in hue and interesting defects as a result of that.

I'm going to be using these with some modifications to start work on the two paintings you see.  I am running the images you see taped to the paintings in this photo through the heavy duty laser jet scanner printer in my studio to get some distortions and rotations going so I can create more visual wave motion, by moving them while scanning, in this context that can be a metaphor for wave functions. These and others will be transferred to the canvases.

Thinking about theme, 2d micro materials, nanoscale, scientific graphing of variables, and so forth I'll probably be incorporating some latices and grids and such imagery into these pieces. 

Here you see some of my early research and development. Some of the challenges will be to not just incorporate the source material, but make it lively and emotionally impactful. Hopefully, I will be able to bring some work in progress when I visit the Velasco Lab, so we each will be able to share and react.