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January 28 - March 4, 2017Info
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January 28, 2017 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Et al. etc. presents Kate Bonner Much more than we know we know January 28 - March 4, 2017 Reception: Saturday, January 28, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
As I watch the CNC router begin to cut, I argue with its machine mind choices: they don’t seem entirely logical, but they aren't intuitive either. It skips sections that I'm worried it will forget, and I hold them in my mind with anxiety. I programmed the machine but it decides on the sequence of cuts, sometimes choosing beauty over efficiency? A spinning, finger-shaped router-blade draws an abstract line into my wood panel, beginning with the longest interior path, waiting until the end to find the outline. The depth and weight of my Photoshop layers are difficult to measure – because they are digital they seem shallow, but in mass they clog my computer. This 1200 dpi, two-gigabyte file is too heavy to move — dropped in the transfer from my computer to another via Wi-Fi. I flatten twenty layers into one, permanently erasing hidden images, a loss that stings, and now the digital file is nearly weightless: a light spray of acrylic ink onto the top of wood panels. The swipe of my finger on my track pad is like the swing of my arm with spray paint, but the printer reduces my gestures to thin, unimaginative recurring rows.