RELATIVITY SERIES "Jason Voorhees" archival pigment print 2011 "Andy" archival pigment print 2011 "Vera" archival pigment print 2011 "Fred Krueger" archival pigment print 2011 "Nancy Thompson" archival pigment print 2011 "Lt. Donald Thompson" archival pigment print 2011 "Marge Thompson" archival pigment print 2011 "Glen Lantz" archival pigment print 2011 "Tina Gray" archival pigment print 2011 "Rod Lane" archival pigment print 2011 "Charles Lee Ray" archival pigment print 2011 "Andy Barclay" archival pigment print 2011 "Karen Barclay" archival pigment print 2011 "Maggie Peterson" archival pigment print 2011 "Mike Norris" archival pigment print 2011     "Dr. Death" archival pigment print 2011 RELATIVITY STATEMENT This new series of digitally created portraits are an exploration of the concept of history, aging and the passing of time applied to the realm of digital video and time based source material. With digital video clips, there are various ways a computer can compress them for size and picture quality. By exploiting certain aspects of the compression process, I have applied a technique that essentially fools the computer into moving the pixels of one video clip in the manner intended for a different, unrelated clip. This creates a new distinct and unified combination of the two wherein the properties of both clips are fused into one. By then combining individual frames from several of these altered video clips into one still image, the end result is a combination of multiple moments in time being represented simultaneously. The final pieces are archival pigment prints that are strikingly painterly in their portrayal of cubist notions of space as well as a visual representation of Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity and it’s unifying of space and time.

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