Virtual → Physical → Virtual

About this series ↓

This series explores the primacy of information and the diminishing boundary between the physical and the virtual. The forms began as digital sculptures, created through geometric and volumetric modeling, then became physical objects through 3D printing. These images are simulated photographs of those 3D prints, created using physically based rendering to model the material properties of the translucent nylon used in the physical sculptures. Though they appear photographic, everything is virtual once again. The process reflects a recursive loop: virtual becomes physical, then physical becomes virtual, each step a different expression of the same underlying information. In this loop, conventional categories—sculpture and image, abstraction and realism, object and simulation, dissolve into one another, highlighting how representation, regardless of form, is ultimately itself information.

Aboxa Holy Vessel - 2012

24" x 18" - Dye sublimation print on aluminum panel

Created through an iterative process of distortion, evaluation, and refinement, Aboxa Holy Vessel began as a solid volumetric box. It was gradually transformed into a complex hollow shell, and perforated with precisely placed openings. This reflects a ritual form-finding process that blends control and improvisation, intention and intuition. The title implies ironic ambiguity between the mundane and the sacred, between a “box with holes” and a “holy vessel.” Its high-genus topology engages the mind like a puzzle that is seemingly simple, yet ultimately unsolvable.

 

Möbius​ Ganesha - 2012

24" x 18" - Dye sublimation print on aluminum panel

Mobius Ganesha is a continuous, single-sided surface, a topological structure related to the Möbius strip or Klein bottle, but more complex. Though formally abstract, its geometry evokes the form of Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu deity known as the remover of obstacles. The piece also serves as a visual metaphor for the synthesis of divergent ideas into unified understanding.

 

Frank's Free Flowing Self Awareness - 2012

24" x 18" - Dye sublimation print on aluminum panel

A visualization of self-awareness as a dynamic, distributed process. The work presents a system of interconnected forms, at once discrete and continuous, evoking the fluid and recursive nature of identity. Though formally abstract, the piece speculates on how self-awareness might manifest as dynamic embodiment across physical or virtual domains.

 

Roger's Irrational Ratios - 2012

24" x 16" - Dye sublimation print on aluminum panel

Roger’s Irrational Ratios was sculpted through an improvisational process of shaping, hollowing, and perforation. Its flowing, compound curvature resists analytical grasp, inviting contemplation rather than resolution. The title refers to the nonlinear, generative logic of emergence, where intelligence and form arise not from tidy equations, but from “irrational ratios” of influence, interaction, and adaptation. Like other works in the series, it speculates on how intelligence might manifest when freed from biological or physical constraint.

 

Totem To The Illusion Of Things - 2012

24" x 20" - Dye sublimation print on aluminum panel

This virtual sculpture brings together a collection of interwoven abstract forms to create a single emblematic structure. The title refers not only to the illusion of separateness, but to the illusory nature of reality itself, and the view that "things" are ultimately patterns of information. To realize this concept, the work combines fluid dynamics, procedural modeling, implicit surfaces, and volumetric sculpting. It deliberately juxtaposes radically different forms and processes to cultivate emergent complexity, with the intention of producing a structure that appears both deliberately designed and fundamentally strange.