Everything Appears as it is: Infinite, Alex Dodge

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Alex Dodge, Everything Appears as it is: Infinite
Alex Dodge, Everything Appears as it is: Infinite
Alex Dodge
Everything Appears as it is: Infinite
2011
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
Not on display
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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