JON COFFELT
Xochiquetzal (Fertility Goddess)
Popol Vuh Console (Mayan) Itzpapalotl (Butterfly) Huitzilopochtli Console Fetish (Hummingbird) Kukulcan Fetish Console Japonaise Console Fetish Space Circuitry Fetish Mayan Circuitry Fetish Aztec Circuitry Console Quetzalcoatl Fetish Console Cosmos Pink Spiral Orange Circuitry Fetish Yellow Spiral Console Lotus Circuitry Fetish Space 1
circuitry
I currently explore duct-tape and new technologies concerning it. I subvert it by utilizing it alongside traditional mediums such as paper, vellum and Tyvek. I navigate the similarities of computer motherboards, traffic patterns, street maps, and ancient architectural ruins. I interpret them in ways to draw the viewer into dialog, continuing explorations of methodologies and relationships. Though linearly based, these works allude to organic structuring and fractals.

I suggest, that this marriage between duct-tape and vellum is total debauchery. It's play on materials, textures and colors furthers my premise as an artist of working with opposition in every way possible. This multi-layering and sometimes grafting of colors refer to different ideologies within each piece, inflating the notion of a universe where subversives become part of the fabric of what is a known truth but instead of causing it to unravel, they make the weak parts stronger.
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