ARTIST STATEMENT
Blurring the line between abstract and figurative, this body of work collapses the hierarchy between the biological and technological. Utilizing digital archives from defense agencies and scientific data repositories, my work explores themes of inherent and manufactured power. The imagery of these works begin as an assemblage of collected 3D models which are printed using cyanotyping and are bleached back to barely legible images. The continual process of constructing and dismantling of this imagery is reflective of real world cyclical power transference. These works depict various weaponry, infrastructure and specimens, reappropriating objects symbolic of mass destruction and conflating them with the natural order.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lucas Cordes is an interdisciplinary artist from the Chicago metropolitan area and a recent BFA graduate from Indiana University Northwest. His work examines the intersection of immediate reality and digital memory through various printing and sculptural techniques. In his practice, he utilizes collected digitized forms with physical mixed media to create imagery as a practice of expanding knowledge.
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