Dither Studies #33

signed and numbered 1/1 on the back of the paper Dither Studies began with an accident in Photoshop: applying a small color palette to what should have been an empty field of color created instead a complex, seemingly irrational pattern. This was an error diffusion dither: perhaps the fundamental algorithm of digital photography. Applied to […]

West – East II

signed and dated lower right titled lower left description from direct communication with the artist: “Linear fields address the attraction and repulsion of opposites – their similarity and their difference are presented simultaneously as “West-East” or “Heaven and Earth”. The form fields simultaneously join and separate. creating a formal dynamic tension The algorithms for this […]

Superstrings 1-2

signed lower left on the front titled, dated, and numbered: 4/10 on the back of the frame “For Michael Spalter” written on the back of the frame Ultrachrome inkjet on Hahnemühle ultra smooth paper  

Diamond Lake Apocalypse

signed and dated lower right in graphite artist’s label adhered to the back of the frame description from direct communication with the artist: “The Diamond Lake Apocalypse series were formatted somewhat like medieval manuscript illuminations. In the late 1980’s I came to view my studio as a 20th Century electronic scriptorium illuminating the codes of […]