Monday, June 05, 2006

The Transformation of Poison


The image above has been simmering in the background for a few years now and has finally come to fruition. It came about in December 2001 over a cup of coffee while taking a break at the ASCI conference in NYC. At the conference I met a very interesting Poet/Artist Philosopher and NASA scientist named Farzad Mahootian. We had a wonderful conversation between sips of dark java in mid town Manhattan and talked of many things. I shared my ideas on verbogeometry while he shared his ideas on sculptures that purify the environment. In our mutual excitement he thought it would be a good idea to incorporate the two ideas into a piece of Art. The piece above is the result. I decided to make a symbolic wedge from a verbogeometric prism and have it cleaning the air with chrysanthemum power.

2 comments:

Candy Minx said...

Hi ya Kaz, how ya doing?

I like the image...are you going to build this:) ?

Hope you are well and happy,
Candy
http://gnosticminx.blogspot.com/

Kaz Maslanka said...

Thanks Candy! I have been thinking of building some verbogeometric prisms however, not this one ... but now that you have brought my attention to it ... hmmmm

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