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Art
Mixed Media - Collage Work - Videos - Photography
Origami - Roses
Under Construction
These flowers are folded using origami paper and selected pages from magazines, flyers, or documents.
The stems are also made from paper, and a wire is inserted through them to make them pliable. The stem and roses are assembled, and individual flowers or bouquets are made.
Time-lapse of folding one rose
(Music - Breakbot, Irfane, Olivier - One Out of Two [Olivier Remix] )
The First 9/11 - A News Comic
This is an 11-panel mural News comic representing several aspects of the coup d'état in Chile on September 11th, 1973. On that date, a military junta that was secretly funded and backed by the CIA and the American government overthrew the democratically elected President Salvador Allende. Augusto Pinochet, a military general, took power and remained dictator until 1990.
This piece is made from original American and Chilean magazines and comics from 1972-1974, American comics from the early to mid-80s and various era Condorito comics. Each panel has a reimagined magazine or comic book cover with an accompanying comic. Each comic has a Spanish title taken from the Condorito comics. Panels 1-9 are used to encapsulate the events right before and after September 11th, while panels 10 and 11 are more general on events that happened after.
The Super Secretary
The News
Palacio de La Moneda - Palace of the Mint
The Super Secretary
They're Made Out of Meat
This is an experimental video piece that was made by editing together various videos clips from different art exhibits.
These clips with the added voiceover is a visual adaptation of Terry Bisson's short story 'They're Made out of Meat.'
The inspiration originally came from listening to the story adapted as a radio play.
In this adaptation, the story enfolds as the protaganist revisits a recorded communiqué with his counterpart.
Canon Scanner Camera Photography
Photos were produced by a heavily modified Canon LiDE 30 and LiDE 60 flatbed document scanner. First, the Contact Image Sensor (CIS) housing was modified to allow more light, and the internal LED light source was blacked out. The scanner bed acted as a large format image sensor.
The body of the camera was constructed from nesting cardboard boxes at first but then replaced by an x-ray machine bellows. The bellows was made to fit 1960's TOYO view camera standards and stood atop a Gitzo tripod. The lenses used varied from a magnifying glass to salvaged overhead projector lenses and proper lenses for large format photography.
This project aimed to experiment and make a large format camera that melded both traditional and modern photographic technology. In addition, my purpose was to use different glass, lenses, and lens-like things to produce interesting pictures. The scanning operation to capture images was also a unique aspect of how the camera operated and saw the world.
Canon LiDE 30 using VueScan to capture a picture. (sped up 1700%)
At 1200dpi this scan took 7m49s to capture. The photo was over 100MB.
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