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Rob Fisher's suspended sculptures explore
issues of space, context, transparency, and allusion to nature.
Tokonoma II refers to a sacred space in traditional
Japanese architecture. The "tokonoma," or picture recess, is
the central focus of a room and a separate architectural
feature. The space is not entered; its contents and meaning are
contemplated from without. In this composition, the delicate,
vertical, bead chains suggest streams or droplets of water,
while the shapes refer to birds, butterflies, flower blossoms,
or fish. The surfaces of the curved metal shapes have been
silk-screened with computer generated images that have the
appearance of natural patterns.
Fisher is a Fellow at the Studio for
Creative Inquiry at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University and
artistic director for a planetarium event at the Carnegie Science
Center. Andrew Wittkin, an award-winning computer scientist and
Fisher's collaborator at Carnegie Mellon University, created the
complex programs used to generate Fisher's patterns, receiving the
Prix Ars Electronica for development of "diffusion-reaction"
computer-generated patterns.
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