Video – UV Curing Inkjet Printing of Hexalarious II

EFI VUTEk GS3250 LX uv curing inkjet printer, printing Hexalarious II on dibond composite aluminum panel.

Printed on a rigid substrate, dibond composite aluminum panel, it will next be cut-out on a cnc router. All the white areas will be cut away. Aluminum stand-offs will be put behind to hang and float off a wall.

Printing on rigid substrates opens up a new avenue of exploration in my work by allowing my geometric constructs to expand beyond the confines of square and rectangular formats with use of a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Router that can cut the substrate panel to my specifications.

I want to thank Kim and Scott and the rest of the team at Vista Color Imaging. They have been great to work with, taking extra care to ensure a great final print. The video was provided by Vista Color Imaging.

Fabrication of this artwork is made possible with an ADAP grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

Per the Ohio Arts Council ArtsOhio Blog:

ADAP (Artists With Disabilities Access Program) provides funding that gives individual artists with disabilities—and organizations that serve them—the resources they need to further their artistic development. ADAP awards help artists with disabilities advance their artistic practices, making Ohio a more accessible and inclusive place to build an artistic career

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New Artwork – Tipping Point II

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Tipping Point II, 2020
uv cured inkjet on shaped composite aluminum panel
dimensions variable (overall 44″x 44″), edition of 3

From Euclid’s Elements – Book I – definition 20:

Of trilateral figures, an equilateral triangle is that which has its three sides equal, an isosceles triangle that which has two of its sides alone equal, and a scalene triangle that which has its three sides unequal.

“Isosceles Follies” is composed solely of the two isosceles triangles shown below.

New Artwork – Tipping Point I

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Tipping Point I, 2020
uv cured inkjet on shaped composite aluminum panel
dimensions variable (overall 48″x 48″), edition of 3

From Euclid’s Elements – Book I – definition 20:

Of trilateral figures, an equilateral triangle is that which has its three sides equal, an isosceles triangle that which has two of its sides alone equal, and a scalene triangle that which has its three sides unequal.

“Isosceles Follies” is composed solely of the two isosceles triangles shown below.

New Artwork – Three Hundred Forty Two Quadrilaterals

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Three Hundred Forty Two Quadrilaterals, 2020
uv cured inkjet on cnc cut acrylic mounted to composite aluminum panel
tubular aluminum backing frame with french cleat
48″h x 36″w, edition of 3

Euclid’s Elements – Book 1 – Definitions, definition XXII, simply says:

“A quadrilateral figure is one which is bounded by four sides.”

So any four sided shape is a quadrilateral. The shape I use in this piece is a form of a quadrilateral that Euclid describes as a kite. Yes, it’s the shape your thinking of, like the traditional flying kite shape.

Per Wikipedia:
In Euclidean geometry, a kite is a quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of equal-length sides that are adjacent to each other. In contrast, a parallelogram also has two pairs of equal-length sides, but they are opposite to each other rather than adjacent. 

The diagonals of a kite are always perpendicular to each other.

The kite shape I’m using in this piece is the one below. It looks different than the kite above but it’s still a kite. It has two pairs of equal-length sides adjacent to each other and it’s diagonals are perpendicular to each other. It’s basically been squashed where the horizontal diagonal is smaller than the vertical diagonal (shown by dashed lines) as opposed to the more traditional shape, as shown in the illustration above whereby it’s the opposite; the horizontal diagonal is longer than the vertical diagonal.