Tibi Chelcea

Strictly speaking, this is a single work (an illuminated manuscript) in 15 parts (or pages). The text in this work comes from an electronic design paper presented at a scientific conference a few years back.; this article is copied by hand and illuminated in the tradition of medieval illuminated manuscripts. My impulse for making this work deals with a simple question. The number of science articles has exploded recently, but, out of all these articles, how many are consequential? Should this particular article, not well cited or followed up on,…read more

The paintings in the Trigonopoetry (Trigonometric Poetry) series start as pages from old trigonometry textbooks pasted on wood panels. Some words are masked out to create new sentences, and the panel is painted. It’s surprising how many nuggets of wisdom about art, morality and life reside in these old textbooks.