Color Tuning

2004. 3-color potato chip print in a scrap wood shadow box. 13" x 16.5" $149.99 plus $28.99 for shipping. Click here if you want this piece.

I don't even know what kind of wood the outer casing of this shadow box is made of. I do know two things, though: 1. It's exotic (which is Italian for "expensive"), and 2. It took a lot of work for this thing to stop spitting out splinters like a lost and seriously disturbed tree-ent-slaying dwarf with a double-headed war axe in the middle of an old-growth forest. Anyway, this is the first example of my making a print, then cutting it up into its second compositional incarnation. I was thinking of television while I made this piece; old-style tv's received radio waves, then effectively converted these waves into light waves visible to humans. I was going for an homage to this, with how the print isn't affixed in my typically flat manner. I was paying tribute to bad picture quality (yeah, I'm weird) by staggering the 'waves' with some black background between them. I elected not to put any dials or knobs, though; forgive me.