{"product_id":"nesting-vessels","title":"NESTING VESSELS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNesting Vessels\u003c\/em\u003e contains a collection of Birch Cooper’s digital sculptures made around Portland, Oregon from March 2020 to March 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese sculptures were generated with a combination of algorithmic procedure and intuitive shaping. Their recursive structures are at once biological and architectural, human and non-human, occupying a virtual space outside of scale and materiality, where simplicity and complexity become difficult to differentiate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough totally synthetic, these scenes reflect reality as it relates to human experience, recalling states of dilated consciousness, confusion or extreme clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers a zoom through these structures, unimpeded by narrative, language and directionality. The virtual forms have been frozen in two dimensional space through digital printing onto 160 full color pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/birchcooper.net\/\"\u003eBirch Cooper’s\u003c\/a\u003e work remains open to various tools, approaches and substrates, but almost always involves electronic media. He is a frequent collaborator, particularly in his collective \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mshr.info\/\"\u003eMSHR\u003c\/a\u003e, together with Brenna Murphy. He maintains designing live electronic music systems for performance and installation as a central node of focus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis digital sculpture is a byproduct of collaboration and electronic music, but it is enacted alone and with no linear correlation to sound. Sculpting inside a computer is a place of refuge that exists outside of reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCooper views his art practice as a high complexity feedback loop- a living organism that needs constant attention. He lives nomadically with MSHR and considers Portland his spiritual base.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FLOATING WORLD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45144169611573,"sku":"FWC131","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0260\/3030\/9430\/files\/Nesting-cvr-700x905.jpg?v=1684608996","url":"https:\/\/shop.floatingworldcomics.com\/products\/nesting-vessels","provider":"Floating World Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}