Jimmie Durham, Someone Stole My Diamond, 1998. Stone and text on painted wood. Found on http://blogs.artinfo.com/16miles/2010/10/20/robert-kinmonth-handstand-master-on-view-at-cooper-union/
I really enjoyed this piece of humorous art! I am often trying to use the scientific in my work as this is something that I have always been interested in. I believe that art and science work hand in hand. And often science can lead the way in new techniques which are highly useful for the art world. To roughly quote a scientist who visited Leeds University recently and attended an Artist Round-table in reference to a new 3D drawing process that he was involved in developing 'artists reacted to the process rather differently to scientists. They were deliberately attempting to disturb perception to change their way of looking even in the attempt to cause destruction!' In response to this some of the artists presents suggested that it was not in fact an attempt at destruction but as a resistance to being constrained.
In relation to my own work I am currently using wax in combination with oil paint, varnish and water. The mixture of both lipid soluble and hydrophobic elements takes me back to when I was first told that 'oil and water don't mix' and my desire to 'make them mix'! I like to experiment with materials and textures. This is part of my current project about the impossibility of erosion how nothing is transcendent and everything is ultimately transient.
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