US8172828
Plaques
2019
To understand how our world is built, where we stand, and where we’re headed, we need only look to the vast archive of international patent applications
Patents are documents approved by government authorities that grant ownership rights to inventors for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention. They exist for every conceivable aspect of life and death.
Pages of technical and conceptual notes are often accompanied by graphic illustrations and I became fascinated by the challenge of visually representing these complex ideas through simple, hand-drawn black lines.
I began to think of these illustrations as the true genetic code of our civilization. As an echo of the Golden Records sent into interstellar space by NASA in the 1970s, I engraved them onto golden plaques, housed in artist’s frames of my own invention. Instead of being sent into space to hopefully be seen by some imagined alien life-form in a distant future, they are to remain on Earth, to be seen and contemplated in the present.
Modified impact acrylic in artist’s frame.
24.9x14cm, (9.8x5.5 inches).
Titled, dated and signed on reverse.
Patents are documents approved by government authorities that grant ownership rights to inventors for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention. They exist for every conceivable aspect of life and death.
Pages of technical and conceptual notes are often accompanied by graphic illustrations and I became fascinated by the challenge of visually representing these complex ideas through simple, hand-drawn black lines.
I began to think of these illustrations as the true genetic code of our civilization. As an echo of the Golden Records sent into interstellar space by NASA in the 1970s, I engraved them onto golden plaques, housed in artist’s frames of my own invention. Instead of being sent into space to hopefully be seen by some imagined alien life-form in a distant future, they are to remain on Earth, to be seen and contemplated in the present.
Modified impact acrylic in artist’s frame.
24.9x14cm, (9.8x5.5 inches).
Titled, dated and signed on reverse.
