| Title: | Blanket |
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| Created: | 2003 | |
| Production: | Limited Edition Size of 200 Pieces | |
| Media: | 13"x13" print (full bleed), Archive Photopapers and Inks | |
| Framing: | I can do Suspension framing with 16"x16"x2" shadow box frames. If desired, I can provide the artwork unmounted, matted in 16"x16" black mat board, or mounted on 1/4" 13"x13" black foamcore. In all cases, the numbered and signed narrative is included. | |
| Narrative: | Click here for narrative info |
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Darkfire was intended to be a very dramatic work. The picture can be simply
described as a chip mounted on a gold base with conductive epoxy. Boring,
but accurate. The silicon chip, dark gray with fiery highlights and
interconnection wires radiating, is the centerpiece. The gold background,
with its bright reds and yellows, looks like the surface of the sun. The
epoxy, with its dark shadows, is like a spectral mist coming off the chip.
The analogy of fire is something I was trying to create. Chips are born of
fire; really hot fire, like 2500o F. All of the processing steps that chips
go through are at brutal temperatures and atmospheres. I wanted to translate
this birth, this searing genesis, into a visually striking work. The whole
scene seems like something out of Sci-Fi film.
The Motorola G358 chip in Darkfire comes of the dawn of chips. In the early sixties, the challenge of putting multiple transistors on a single piece of silicon was solved. These early chips were called Logic Chips, because small circuits of logic could be constructed on them. These are building blocks that were later built into microprocessors and memory chips. The G358 chip contains a simple circuit called a Flip-Flop. Flip-Flops consisted of about 6 transistors and had the ability to pass a bit of information around and around its circuit, so in effect it was a storage device. In fact, Flip-Flops were the basis of the memory chips to come. It could have been called it a 1-bit storage device instead of a flip-flop. It’s just that no one, in its time, could conceive of the mega-bit storage devices of the today. |
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