I’ve always had wild dreams of hyper-saturated colors – colors so intense that they blur the lines between visual and emotional experience. I didn’t understand these dreams until I started studying design in college.
Color gamuts are “the range of reproducible colors or the physical limitations of an input sensor or output device.” Our eyes can see more colors than a digital camera can capture and a print of that image contains even fewer possible colors.
But taking this in the other direction, our eyes are “imperfect input devices.” They have physical limitations restricting the colors within the known spectrum to a smaller range of colors we think of as the totality of our visible world. Imagine for a second the light waves you can’t see. I believe my color dreams are dreams of imaginary colors, beyond the boundaries of sight / perceptible light.
Although I can’t reproduce “imaginary colors” I attempt to create similar emotional response through subtle shifting and layering of intensely saturated hues, iridescent reflections, and other forms of magical color manipulation. The works are not symbolic or conceptual - they are merely attempts to achieve a hyper-saturated innate experience of color. And in my experience, this hits everyone a little bit differently.
But not all of my work focuses on color. I wish I had a thousand years to explore every new tool genre, media, etc. and this creates a very diverse portfolio.
I started painting minimal abstracts in the late 90s and ran a small gallery in Denver, Colorado. I moved to NYC in 2000, only to discover no one had any interest in abstract paintings at the time. Distracted by other paths, I stopped painting, worked in advertising for a while then started a bi-coastal (NY/LA) music and sound design company called Robot Repair. You heard our work on countless car commercials, video games, podcasts, etc but that is an anonymous world that no one really remembers for very long.
Having worked in just about every form of new media from floppy disks onward I am fascinated by the explosion of new digital art tech and exploring new expressive tools in interactive, generative, code-based and crypto / web3 / or whatever we’re calling it, and wherever you’re seeing it by the time you read this.
