Back in June of 2013 my friend Philip Cheung asked me to be in a drawing show that he was curating for This Red Door, an art collective based in Brooklyn. They set up a partnership with REH Kunst, a space in Berlin for this event. Tons of talented artists submitted, and I was honored to be among them.
The idea for the show was "as below, so above," a reversal of the mantra of the early Hermetics - proto scientists in search of universal theories of matter, physics, and divinity. I thought the idea of pixelization from the previous year fit in well with this theme, as it's a phenomenon that occurs on all scales from the subatomic to the cosmic. As below, so above. So I made a series of drawings that were pretty much the 2D version of the sculpture:
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