This is one of my favorite pieces, just because I really had a vision and passion to complete it. Here I spelled out "Humor" in Binary code using ceramic toilet paper. I threw the toilet paper on the wheel as a closed off double cylinder. It took a while, and I don't think I would have finished it if it wasn't so close to my heart. It's not the best image, it's much better seen in person.
In this line of work, using everyday objects as text, I wrote out concepts which I have struggled to grasp in binary code. I chose binary code because of its simple yet complex characteristics. In binary code, you either have a 1 or a 0. Its simply one or the other. However, when put together in a sequence they can represent characters which form words used for communication. Everything input into a computer has to be filtered through binary code. I compared this to the way people think. Everything I feel is brought into me through a language that I understand. The objects I choose may or may not make sense to everyone because it is the mental connection I make when I relate difficult concepts to my tangible, physical world. The viewer may be able to draw the same connections I do, or to their own ideas. These pieces also work as hieroglyphs in that sense, giving this body of work a bilingual quality that I enjoy.
Whoa!! I did code at school AND found it so difficult (understand it to this day though but topped my art..now if I thought like you... This is beyond Brilliance!! Well done
Nicely done. As a coder and a photographer, I appreciated the art AND the technology. The MSB position threw me for a bit as well, (sorry for the pun) but I worked through it. Had to laugh at some of the comments about the bit lengths. Not all systems are 8 bit or multiples of 8 bit. As a matter of fact, before anyone else bashes him for 7 bits, go read the history of ASCII... [link] Thanks for sharing your work!
so that's why you chose to have it 7 rows! the first row was full of 0's
awesome work by the way