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Displacement
Displacement
Displacement

Displacement

Date2016
MediumIntaglio print
Dimensions25 × 44 in. (63.5 × 111.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrintmaking
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Escalette Endowment
Object number2018.5.6
Label TextShanahan’s work draws on patterns inherent in nature. The works on display here are from his body of work The Ecstasy of Matter, and portray nuances in shapes and patterns observed at the atomic and sub-atomic levels. From a time lapse print of a differential growth curve, to a clustering of cells in a Voronoi tessellation, to a simulation of bird flocking behavior based on Craig Reynold’s BOIDS algorithm, Shanahan’s work explores patterns as they are expressed through time and space.
As the artist explains, “The purpose of these drawings is to describe nature as form distinct from substance, as patterns and arrangements that lie beneath the immediate reality of objects…What is born to our eyes as the world of things is a phenomenon of fields of energy colliding into each other, a self-assembling system of relations that scales infinitely through time and space, in which what goes on outside our consciousness and within it are the same process.”

This work represents grid lines interpolated from points deformed by a randomized pattern of displacement forces.

[Keck Exhibition, 2018]
Status
On view
Location
  • Keck Center for Science and Engineering (1 University Dr), Floor 3, Hallway 302

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