DATA grew out of Objects Outgrown, a scanner-based series of things from my own childhood and those of my children. While working on Objects between 2012-2014, other things began catching my eye, and I eventually decided that everything looked more interesting when it was scanned. In December 2014 I discovered there were intriguing narrative possibilities with these new experiments, and soon decided they were no longer experiments.

When used as designed, scanners render with great accuracy. But when used otherwise, they are capable of gorgeous distortion, and that distortion is my partner for this series of improvisations. The cornerstones of my process are inaccuracy, unrepeatability, spontaneity, and experimentation. DATA is rather like drawing with the sparks flying from a welding torch, or sculpting with the feedback from an electric guitar. I think of the results as a hybrid of hand, tool and subject, bound together by chance, quick thinking and patience.