schemaLinea: serial collages [2016 – 2018]
Materials: MDF board, birch ply, gesso, archival inkjet paper, UV-protected matte medium, archival glue.
Dimensions: ~30”L x 22”W x .5”H
An iterative collage series that grows quietly more intricate with each new generation, schemaLinea carries an engineering design sensibility—precise, yes, but never sterile. The work gently cannibalizes Encyclopedia Britannica charts as its raw material, inviting those sober diagrams into a second life of shimmer and surprise. Each panel evolves through subtle compositional shifts, nudged along by alternating analog and digital processes—as if the image is being tested, coaxed, and re-discovered.
Production stays devoted to close-as-possible image coherency across multiple rounds of manual and electronic editing and compositional manipulation. That near-perfect continuity becomes its own kind of lure: the work asks viewers to linger with the textural aesthetics of exactitude, and to feel the vibrant little antagonisms that arise inside one’s acceptability tolerance—that teasing space between close approximation and ultimate precision.
Ideally, the full set of five schemaLinea panels is collected and displayed together, inserted into their complementary art piece, schemaLinea_analysisRack. The device allows the collector to slide in specific panel versions and arrange deliberate, side-by-side comparisons of each work’s generative differences—an invitation to look again, to notice the slightest drift, and to take a modest, exploratory joy in what changed… and what almost didn’t.
Delightfully absorbing for the anal-retentiveness in us all.