Singing Pi, the Xenophile Wildstyle (and other song stories)

sketchscape

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:33:00 +0000

ON NO

landscape, mixed media, 13" x 19"

K.I.A. 2012

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'Twere, Mirror

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:13:00 +0000

"Twere, Mirror", 14" x 10", mixed media. K.I.A. 2012

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untitled by K.I.A.

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:33:00 +0000

untitled, mixed media, 40" x 30"
K.I.A. 2012
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untitled by K.I.A.

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:33:00 +0000

untitled, mixed media, 40" x 30"
K.I.A. 2012
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ardent silver amour

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:44:00 +0000

"Argent Silk Armor" by K.I.A. 2011 (different light) more at: www.nu4ya.com

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five thousand paratemporal feet

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:46:00 +0000

46" x 30" x 5000' -K.I.A. 2012
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Past Lives, Recombinant Personalities & Divination Inclinations

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:34:00 +0000

Added a narrative bio for K.I.A. re: past-lives, R.E.M. paintings, remixable sculptures, and one's brain as the receiver of a uniquely broadcast personality.

Keith Haring, George Michaels and Sheryl Crow make cameo appearances, as does Janet Cardiff and some Japanese guy. Read the bio here: http://www.nu4ya.com/bio.html

EXCERPT:

“I hated landscapes. So I started doing them.” Sort of. A sampling: a birch forest, made of a morse-coded poem, along with secretarial shorthand; a pastoral scene slyly acknowledging four Canadian art-giants, organic shapes undercut with minimalism; a glorious greeting-card landscape of a rainbow over a farm, translated into thousands of scintillating squares via 18th century Jacquard-cards (the precursor to computer programming). “I’d had some interesting experiences where it became clear that the brain or body was not the seat of the soul but was more like a receiver, or translator, of something bigger. Reality was something we each decoded. I wanted to express that.”

He’d received an energy-healing at a meditation class that completely fixed an old eye injury from karate. He also had a profound psychic reading. “I was told of this woman living this muddy, mundane pioneer life on the prairies, sod home and all. Her big creative outlet was was to hang the laundry, woo-hoo, and read the one book the family owned, over and over.” There was a fire, they lost the book. The woman was so despondent that her kids gave her blank pages to rewrite it from memory, which ultimately led to writing her own original stories, which were eventually widely-read. “That pioneer woman was me. This stranger had zeroed-in on my appreciation for writing, abhorrence for housework, and avoidance of anything cowboy.”

But what really resonated was the description of the laundry: the woman expressing herself by creatively hanging the piles of washed clothes in colorful and interesting patterns on the line. “Months later, I was describing the reading to a curator who’d come over to see my work, and it hit me -- we were, at that moment, looking at colorful and interesting patterns of panels, hung in long lines.” Embedded in the past-life story was a description of his recombinant painting-installations, which were very, very specific to him. The idea that the soul was an infinite thing, and that each lifetime was just a part of the whole -- like pieces of a collage, like panels in a painting, like paintings in a giant ‘super-work’ -- echoed his art...

To see the art (examples below), go to: http://www.nu4ya.com

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MQ CQ

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:53:00 +0000

"MQ CQ" -K.I.A., 2012

waveform forest & soundclouds

final. detail view.

60" x 54"

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Conqrete Musique

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:46:00 +0000

Scores (violin phase also radiohead) and scores (15,000+ hand-etched in.) Scratches (notation) and scratching (remixing of images).

Music made physical: the “forest” are waveforms, taken from soundcloud, of songs with...

more at: Conqrete Musique

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Pretty Rainbow Over Farm

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:50:00 +0000

8' x 6', oilstick on aluminum, by K.I.A., 2012. Landscape converted into Jacquard card code, and hand-drawn. (More art at http://www.nu4ya.com )

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LOOM CODE: "Pretty Rainbow Over Farm"

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:57:00 +0000

A glorious double-rainbow captured over a beautiful country farm, as information; the photo was translated via email (by a helpful textile company in the eastern-bloc) into extensive Jacquard-card code; the thousands of squares were then hand-drawn/scratched/sanded/redrawn etc in metallic oilsticks on shaped aluminum. (BTW: Jacquard cards were punch cards used in mechanical looms from the 1800s; they eventually led to the invention of computers.) So: part of a series exploring the idea that there are other layers of reality behind what's seen, and that a shift in consciousness can reveal them. Also: prosaic title on purpose.

"Pretty Rainbow Over Farm", 96" x 60" (8" dow to 6" relief on the 4 curves), oilstick on aluminum, K.I.A. 2012. (Detail shot, from second angle, to show how the painting changes according to the light.)

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music thoughtz

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:55:00 +0000

Stopping sleep, collapsing time hummingbirds, eyeah allelujah http://www.nu4ya.com/K.I.A._-_Art/news/Entries/2009/1/15_Entry_1.html
(and more ideas behind the Shinjuku Zulu and K.I.A. songs, now posted on the art site.)

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The Map Is Not That

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:33:00 +0000

“The Map is Not the Territory”, 84” x 60”, oilstick on folded & distressed aluminum, by K.I.A., 2012, (Detail shot). See full image & ideas-behind here at the K.I.A. homesite/blog:

http://www.nu4ya.com/K.I.A._-_Art/news/Entries/2012/2/14_The_Map_is_Not_the_Territory.html

"Navigational and star charts, satellite shots, gps, glyphs and geography. Photons and suns. Flatness vs. vastness, circles against grids, “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”...

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<3 )( RX

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:44:00 +0000

"<3 )( RX" oilstick on aluminum, 24 " x 36" x 6". K.I.A. 2012. Upsetting the sets...a 2D Venn diagram on 50 panels, hung 3D; iphoto'd at owner's.

(See also in this series: Accelration / Still , 12' x 6' x 300 panels)

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Or, our gone, go.

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:27:00 +0000

Origami ourorboros & dragon algorithms & etched quetz &: http://www.nu4ya.com/K.I.A._-_Art/news/Entries/2012/1/20_Or%2C_our_gone%2C_go...

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General Stealth, Car River

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:30:00 +0000

"General Stealth, Car River" by K.I.A. 2011, 84" x 60", oilstick on scored aluminum. (The scored lines flare/flash reflected light).

Quick detail shot of the canuck x 4 (guess who) quadra-landscape. Shot of the entire piece at a later dater.

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Argent Silk Armor (Ardent Silver Amour)

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:19:00 +0000

...completed but sill untitled; 84" x 60" x 6", oilstick on faceted aluminum, K.I.A. 2011

A glimpse from a series of new larger works , more revealed later...

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Captain Kirk ♡s Mrs Major Tom (feat Sheryl Crow)

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:44:00 +0000

Sheryl Crow beautifully sings "Mrs Major Tom" (by yours truly) on William Shatner's new concept album "Seeking Major Tom".

The track, which I released on my "Adieu Shinjuku Zulu" and "DXLR8" albums as K.I.A., (and featuring the amazing vocals of Larissa Gomes,) continues the story of Major Tom, now told from the point of view of the wife left behind.

I'd always referred to "Mrs Major Tom" as part IV of the epic ("Space Oddity", "Ashes to Ashes" and Pete Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming Home)" being parts I-III), but now there are parts V, VI, VII and XX and more -- Shatner's album includes various other (space-themed) songs in the narrative arc.

Some of those other songs are "Rocket Man" (Elton John), "Walking on the Moon" (The Police), "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen), "Planet Earth" (Duran Duran) and so on.

I'm predicting it here first: The Odyssey of Major Tom, coming soon to Broadway... Or... maybe Cirque de Soleil will do a version for Vegas... or an opera somewhere staged in Berlin.

Anyway, the song is on iTunes here MRS MAJOR TOM and Amazon here Mrs Major Tom

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re:version ad:hockney

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:06:00 +0000

"AdhockneyRX" by K.I.A. 34" x 24" Natural digital artifacts photo'd , outputted, painted. Inkjet and acrylic on canvas, 2011.

detail:

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"e dot e dot tree dot dash" (morse-code-poem-morphed forest)

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:20:00 +0000

"e dot e dot tree dot dash", oilstick on aluminum, 84" x 60", K.I.A. 2011.
Morse-code-morphed & shorthand-embedded poem forest... (detail shot below).

Detail shot of above painting:

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"Ξ∼¬−~ΞΞΞ"

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:44:00 +0000

"Ξ∼¬−ΞΞΞ" by K.I.A. 2011. Acrylic on aluminum. 26" x 40".
A 'landscape', one in a series of 8, extracted/sifted/compressed/composed from global spiritual texts, using poetic-concrete word analysis.

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Sam Jackson K.I.A

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:36:00 +0000

Not one for self-portraits, but what else ya gonna do when Samuel Jackson is filming in your alley with massive klieg lights blasting thru your blinds & you have an iPhone ?

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In F Fable

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:22:00 +0000

"In 'F' Fable", 40" x 30", oilstick on canvas, K.I.A. 2011
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turbo aragato (or: the supersonic reckless warrior matter)

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:14:00 +0000

Turboaragato, 84" x 60", oilstick on aluminum by K.I.A. 2011
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bloom machine

noreply@blogger.com (K.I.A.) — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:48:00 +0000

...by K.I.A.

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©K.I.A.2011

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