On exhibit: Bold Abstracts 2022 International Juried Exhibition
GOLD AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
GRACE 22X36" Digital Transparency Lightbox and Limited Edition Print
Its 1962 and Grace is riding home from the county fair in the back seat of her family ‘57 Chevy. Along country roads she is drowsing by rhythmic telephone lines lit by dusk; Popsicle tart on her tongue and banjo tapping her toes.
GOLD AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
GRACE 22X36" Digital Transparency Lightbox and Limited Edition Print
Its 1962 and Grace is riding home from the county fair in the back seat of her family ‘57 Chevy. Along country roads she is drowsing by rhythmic telephone lines lit by dusk; Popsicle tart on her tongue and banjo tapping her toes.
BIOFUEL
18X36" Digital Transparency Lightbox
This painting is about potential energy. In particular, Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP). Without ATP, life as we understand it could not exist. It is a perfectly-designed, intricate molecule that serves a critical role in providing the proper size energy packet for scores of thousands of classes of reactions that occur in all forms of life. It generates the energy to move our muscles and fuels metabolism of the food we eat. "ATP is what keeps the whole world operating.”
"A critically important macromolecule—arguably “second in importance only to DNA”—is ATP. ATP is a complex nanomachine that serves as the primary energy currency of the cell." The enormous amount of activity that occurs inside each of the approximately one hundred trillion human cells is shown by the fact that at any instant each cell contains about one billion ATP molecules. This amount is sufficient for that cell’s needs for only a few minutes and must be rapidly recycled. Given a hundred trillion cells in the average male, about 1023 or one sextillion ATP molecules normally exist in the body. For each ATP “the terminal phosphate is added and removed 3 times each minute” (https://www.trueorigin.org/atp.php)
While designing this piece I included multiple forms of potential energy that were generating enormous amounts of impact on peoples' lives. The pulsing of the ATP molecule, a nano-pump in our cells is represented in symbols of the golden ratio. Red hot spots reflect the crowd sourced disaster relief in Haiti. A snowball fight flash mob can appear from seemingly nowhere, fueled by social media and potential energy of the toss.
18X36" Digital Transparency Lightbox
This painting is about potential energy. In particular, Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP). Without ATP, life as we understand it could not exist. It is a perfectly-designed, intricate molecule that serves a critical role in providing the proper size energy packet for scores of thousands of classes of reactions that occur in all forms of life. It generates the energy to move our muscles and fuels metabolism of the food we eat. "ATP is what keeps the whole world operating.”
"A critically important macromolecule—arguably “second in importance only to DNA”—is ATP. ATP is a complex nanomachine that serves as the primary energy currency of the cell." The enormous amount of activity that occurs inside each of the approximately one hundred trillion human cells is shown by the fact that at any instant each cell contains about one billion ATP molecules. This amount is sufficient for that cell’s needs for only a few minutes and must be rapidly recycled. Given a hundred trillion cells in the average male, about 1023 or one sextillion ATP molecules normally exist in the body. For each ATP “the terminal phosphate is added and removed 3 times each minute” (https://www.trueorigin.org/atp.php)
While designing this piece I included multiple forms of potential energy that were generating enormous amounts of impact on peoples' lives. The pulsing of the ATP molecule, a nano-pump in our cells is represented in symbols of the golden ratio. Red hot spots reflect the crowd sourced disaster relief in Haiti. A snowball fight flash mob can appear from seemingly nowhere, fueled by social media and potential energy of the toss.
WORLD MUSIC
22X36" Photography and digital art, Digital Transparency Lightbox, Limited Edition Print
22X36" Photography and digital art, Digital Transparency Lightbox, Limited Edition Print