The Sporozoan Swarm is a modular work of art, made up of torn and cut Intaglio and Lithographic prints combined with drawing, with a projected 500,000 components. These components break down from The Swarm into many small clusters and migrate around the world. The Swarms component structure allows it to ebb and flow through spaces in a fluid way, wrapping around doorways and shifting through corners: it suggests the fluid dynamics of life. Small Clusters of The Swarm are installed in places that are not typically seen as “art viewing spaces,” allowing the greatest number of viewers the space to commune with the piece, free of sterile pretense, or limited access. This way of viewing makes the work become more a part of the viewer’s multifaceted memory, rather than a one-dimensional ornament.
A great deal of site specific or time limited work relies on photography to allow viewers to witness and “own” the art. With The Sporozoan Swarm, the owner of the work or “The Keeper” of a Cluster becomes part of the larger whole of the interconnected world-wide installation. And while viewers are able to see photographs of my installations all over the world, providing a macro perspective, they are also able to install a piece of the whole on their wall using their own aesthetic, their own voice.
These Keepers become aesthetic partners when they decide how Clusters or individual pieces of The Swarm should be displayed. The Keepers physically touch, interact with, and hang the same pieces that I have printed, torn and drawn, contributing to the evolution of the whole. By handling the work they make it a less precious, more tangible, common grounded thing. The element of many small pieces available to people all over the world connects The Keepers to me and to the large-scale public installations of The Swarm I create. The Sporozoan Swarm acts as a binder of all of its Clusters and Keepers by connecting them through its on-line locating map and its serendipitous collective experience.
Art can change our world. Just let it be a part of your life.
It may not look it but the map has changed drastically. Seven new Keepers in the past two weeks. Check it out and play with it. It is a pretty cool little tool.
The Sporozoan Swarm now resides in three countries and eight states. It wants to double that in the next month. Become a Keeper of The Sporozoan Swarm and add to its proliferation.
My first Sporozoan Swarm subscription has been delivered. It was purchased as a gift. I personally find buying art as a gift a tough thing to do unless you know that the person on the receiving end knows the artist and likes their work. In this case the receiving individual did not know me, in fact the buyer didn’t even know me, she found me on Etsy. She gave her friend a three month subscription to The Swarm and this was the response when the gift was opened: “The reaction was as follows: confusion, followed by intrigue, followed by delight!”
It is exciting to get a note like this emailed to you from a complete stranger who has given your art work to another complete stranger.
The Minuscule Sporozoan Swarm is really small. It is a huge leap for me to make things so small. It used to be that small for me was some where in the two foot range. I couldn’t even think about making something smaller.
These are so exciting because they start out so small and can grow to a huge scale by adding other pieces of The Swarm to them. These are not individual pieces, rather they are bits of a larger entity that keeps growing and has yet to see its end. When you become a Keeper you join a larger whole, all participating in an ongoing and monumental art en devour.
Art can change the world.
The Sporozoan Swarm can be a little unruly. That is why I put together The Container. This way when one becomes a Keeper The Swarm can’t get away or sit dormant while searching for a place to exist within its new environment. This piece of The Swarm allows the Keeper to leave most of the Keeping to me. I decide the placement and there is no handling on a Keepers part. Unless, of course, after some time they decide The Swarm needs to be rearranged. Then they can open up the Container and reorganize The Swarm.
The Swarm is growing and is calling out to you.
The Sporozoan Swarm is not simply bunches of pieces going out to individuals. It is one large piece being Kept by assorted individuals. The map above shows locations of The Swarm. I will update this map once a week until the whole Swarm has proliferated. With my ultimate goal being a population of 50,000 for The Swarm I suspect to be updating the map for quite some time. To be a part of The Swarm check my Etsy shop and watch for Swarm give a way’s here.
Lets go readers spread the word of The Swarm. Tell a friend to check out printtroll.
The Swarm is calling you. All you need to do is leave a comment and you get one. I will be picking someone at random but not until I have 5 comments. This weeks give away is for a Minuscule Sporozoan Swarm. Once I have 5 comments I will notify the new Keeper, via email and then get their Swarm in the mail. Check out the map to see The Swarms proliferation so far.
Check back next week I will have a new give away then.
Art can change our world. Just let it be a part of your life.
Working on a series of printed Ts.
They are now available in my Etsy shop. These are a limited edition. Next set to be announced shortly.
Mini Prints of the Sporozoan Cavity, signed, dated and spreading on Etsy.
