Thirty-three Types of Visual Art, in No Particular Order (The Tropes), 2021-2022
digital (diptych)
3072 x 4098px (each)
Familiar subject in unfamiliar material
Unfamiliar subject in familiar material
Unusable familiar object or environment
Composite materials into familiar object or environment
Composite materials into unfamiliar object or environment
Object or environment that presents as something that it is not
Object or environment that is only as it is
Familiar subject at unfamiliar scale
Fuckery around perception
Harmony of aesthetics
Object or environment that serves a purpose, happens to be aesthetic
Object or environment that is aesthetic, happens to serve a purpose
Shiny
Object or environment that is distasteful to spur a sense of injustice
Object or environment that is distasteful to distance you from the subject
Object or environment that is distasteful to challenge your distance from the subject
Object or environment that is beautiful to endear you to the subject
Object or environment that is beautiful to distance you from the subject
Juxtaposition
A joke
Object or environment to encourage something good to happen
Object or environment to prevent something bad from happening
Object or environment to encourage something bad to happen
Object or environment to overwhelm the senses
Object or environment to make you feel small
Object that is an outcome of a particular process, the outcome being incidental
Process that produces an artifact, the artifact being incidental
Object or environment that is difficult to create
Object or environment that is extremely delicate
Object or environment that hides its human creation
Object or environment that emphasizes its human creation
Object or environment that is a mirror to reflect back on viewer
Attacks on authority
An unsolvable puzzle; a koan