Everything Appears as it is: Infinite

Alex Dodge

born 1977

Everything Appears as it is: Infinite, 2011

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: brail texture; six-color UV screen print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 512 x 815 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 20 3/16 x 32 1/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 512 x 815 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 3/16 x 32 1/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 28 x 40 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund

Accession number: 2012.0008

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Artist Alex Dodge made this print with a computer program that builds virtual spaces. The artist wanted to point out the contrast between the geometric human-made tiles and the wavy organic shapes made by the water. The geometric shapes (tiles) were formed by using angle measurements. The organic shapes (waves) were made by taking photographs of waves. Dodge used the computer program to blend the shapes together. How do straight lines appear when you look at them through water? The next time you are at a swimming pool, look at the lines at the bottom of the pool. How do they look? The water changes the way the lines look, or distorts them. Why do you think that is? Look at shapes and lines through other kinds of transparent materials. How do they look? Do they look the same or different?

Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing

The title for this work is taken from a passage in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.” For Dodge, the swimming pool encapsulates a similar dichotomy by invoking the systematic, gridded geometry of the tiled pool, as well as a chaotic system of turbulent waveforms that suggests a human or, in his terms, an organic presence. In the artist’s own words, “these images [of swimming pools] engaged an ordered logic represented by architectural form and digital space being uprooted by the chaos of complex and organic systems.” Everything Appears as it is: Infinite was modeled in 3ds Max, a 3D computer graphics program. The pool and the waveforms were created separately, and Dodge photographed puddled ink to create the liquid bordercontours of the layers.

Exhibition Label: "Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing," Mar-2012, Stephen Goddard The title for this work is taken from a passage in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." For Dodge, the swimming pool encapsulates a similar dichotomy by invoking the systematic, gridded geometry of the tiled pool, as well as a chaotic system of turbulent waveforms that suggests a human or, in his terms, an organic presence. In the artist’s own words, “these images [of swimming pools] engaged an ordered logic represented by architectural form and digital space being uprooted by the chaos of complex and organic systems.” Everything Appears as it is: Infinite was modeled in 3ds Max, a 3D computer graphics program. The pool and the waveforms were created separately, and Dodge photographed puddled ink to create the border-contours of the layers. SG