WINGSpictures"Wings" is a series of sketches I did investigating the internal structure of a bird's wing to convert it into a mechanical structure. The drawings map onto each other -- from the real bones that make up the actual wing to a superstructure of wood and leather, covered with wire cages to create a more organic shape, mesh, then feathers to finish the illusion. |
The 25 Imaginary Works series started off as a kind of a joke: to create a description of something that could never be achieved in actual media of any sort, but that would stimulate the imagination. Now they exist as twenty-five framed calligraphic treatments, digital versions of the same, and as post- and greeting cards. Eight have been made into short animated films. So twenty-five bits of impossibility have developed what you might call a life of their own, entirely outside the realm of the abstract and yet still without the potential (or at least the likelihood) to be rendered the way they themselves say they should be.