Foundry

Foundry is an in-progress project designed to engage the evolution of form and visual gesture within closed systems. Consisting of both art tools and their eventual art byproducts, Foundry has additionally proven itself useful as a base for meditative and collaborative action.. A document providing a detailed framework for Foundry is in the works and will be available for download once graduate school has released its pythonic chokehold.

Earthworm (2016)
23" x 10" ; 14" x 4.5" ; 8x8"
stain, lacquer on tooled wood (poplar, burl maple, found, various)

Earthworm is the original prototype Forge, consisting of three base boards and two relative grid / cube sizes (1.5" and 1"). You can find video demos of Earthworm in action here youtu.be/rL5rfj_oxdo and here youtu.be/y7hMifk-HXM.

Glowbox (2016)
7" x 15" x 12"
wood, stain, metal, plexiglass, LEDs, batteries, velcro

Glowbox moves from the modular units of Earthworm to a two dimensional system with on / off states. An angled plate of 3x3 bright white LEDs are arranged over a relative array of on/off switches. This piece has been cannibalized for other projects.

Stratum (2017)
5.25" x 15" x 6"
wood, stain, metal, plexiglass, LEDs, batteries, velcro

Stratum expands upon Glowbox with an eight state system (off, red, blue, green, magenta, cyan, yellow, white). If you want to see my lackluster wiring skills, here is some in process video: https://youtu.be/RiMvoyRini8.