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Michael Joo’s
artworks blur the
boundaries between
art and science,
artifice and nature.
His steel sculpture
Imperfected is a
digitally scanned
“portrait” of a quartz
crystal he “mined” at
a tourist attraction in
upstate New York.
The planar panels
of the sculpture
were created by a
computer program
that used digital
numbers to map out
the assembling of
the panels. Instead
of omitting the digital
numbers, Joo laser
etched them into
the panels in order
to highlight how
their non-sequential
lyricism contrasts
with the perfect
geometry of
the assembled
crystalline panels.
Michael
Joo
Imperfected
(Imago #5)
2010
Stainless steel
36 h.× 42 l. × 38 d. in.
Courtesy the artist
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