I come to the page, to say what I will tell the people on Friday  – how perception creates reality, my work is explorations of that inquiry.  perception.  I hope the work brings wonder, a way to see the self in the act of perceiving, of telling a story about what something really is, about seeing at different scales, lenses, the look of the world having hallmark characteristics at all of them.  And in my more private writing, the words I’d rather say slowly, I will tell how it’s merely a matter of looking in the right kind of lights, for chrissake that similarity is not beholden to human eyes, there are more dimensions, you simply need to be able to see them with light and eyes.  Script, text becomes asemic and relays another possible set of meanings as a visual picture, with just the suggestion of the usual depths and brightly lit ledges that look real in dreams, in microscopy, in biology, in cloudology, and winding roadology, so that everyone makes a story according to the contents and state of the mind. And thirdly of course the shadow matrixes and how they came about, show their progression, and into the optics.

I imagine, instead of lofty thoughts about microscopy, practical thoughts about how I use my unique gift of correspondence with a microscopist and even, all hell, access to an electron microscopy lab – what more could a curious artist want – I am all questions, and the microscopy lab is lenses and ways of seeing and I am curious about this field’s way of seeing, gathering and organizing and understanding, I like to push the metaphor into a creative state,  what practices and ways of seeing can I employ in the studio.

I wonder what the reason and what the microscopy questions were, why was I looking at microscopy for encaustic painting ecstatic research diotomes hold your horses here’s what i have to say to my microscopist correspondent – who is well-knowleged about diatoms and the very small mind-blowingly complex and beautiful tiny bodies in sand, and say to him, hey, mac, the lightfall of the material of this silica object looks like a diatom to me.  and so let’s examine the funny fact that the silica body is similarly made and structured in molten mass as well as at the microscopic scale.  maps, Machine says, they are maps, of of of the lip-chewing fact that the silica makes itself in these ways.

Lightfall is – let’s examine and shall we the etymology of x-ray, the reason it looks like an x-ray is that it is an x-ray – the radiation of photons having passed through the non-opaque object.   perhaps we think there’s a difference in scale when the difference is about the electro-radiation, some of which we call light and use with the soggy pinholes that work as take-it-with-you light focusers, but you know, a two-dimensional image comes in upside down in one of them, and a very similar but not quite exactly the same image comes in through the other one, also upside down, and the same mind that can’t get to sleep at night turns them both gravity-compatible, and from that we puff all up like we seen something, like we can tell what something is. 

I would like to run my observation of what the lightfall from a body of this silicate (known elsewhere as crystal glass, and elserwhere as bohemian crystal) that the lightfall of it is a very similar shape as a diatom, which is silica, and just drop that penny in the well and wait for the answer back. Because, we just might learn something, heavens let’s not even speculate about what that might be (that would be science), let’s let it arrive.

The work keeps moving forward, why complete the incomplete, becoming is the state of its being.