Tibi Chelcea

Trigonopoems

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[cryout-multi][cryout-column width=”1/2″] Trigonopoems is a collaborative project where participants are invited to write poems based on the paintings from my Trigonopoetry series. These paintings start from the pages of two 1920’s trigonometry textbooks. Some words are masked out to create new phrases, and the rest is painted. Anyone can sign for the project using the form to the right. The guidelines are simple: a participant can write one or more poems based on any painting(s) from the series (there are no limits on the number of poems or paintings). The poems can be…read more

Feb.18
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Circuits

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These works are inspired by the shapes and forms found in electronic design, as well as by the shapes and functionality of circuit boards. As a starting point for most of the works, I use electronic boards from discarded electronic products, plentiful in our garbage dumps. These discarded boards may get placed in settings inspired by classical portrait engravings and illuminated manuscripts, become paper doll costumes or are used in thermal tests, or become a platform for discovering the line of separation between analog and digital. Drift These works are inspired by…read more

Dec.02
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Ames Is 150

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Artist 1 All the works submitted for consideration are derived from a lithograph print from “A.T. Andreas’ Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa”; the text in the first work is the opening page of “Centennial History of the Town of Ames” by C.E. Turner. By using various methods of modifying scans of these old images and texts (turning them into an illuminated manuscript page, painting directly on it, or inserting an anachronistic ISU mascot into the image), the works submitted for consideration comment on the significance of the…read more

Nov.14
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