Weaving the Web | Bricolage

Weaving the Web: Bricolage

(Context)

FOUNDED 2010 | ART, FILM, PUBLISHING, DESIGN, & PRODUCTION

(Investigation)

Painting, Bricolage, Film, & Cultural Exchange

(Partners 2021 - present)

Rusha & Co. &
Curator

Monolith: Everything Returns to the Earth, scrolls, & posters, Installation view We Breathe the Same Air, Counter-Archive, Rusha & Co., 2026

In The Savage Mind (1962), Claude Lévi-Strauss describes bricolage as a way of thinking and making through materials already at hand. Fragments of earlier constructions acquire new relationships and meanings through their continual recombination.

Over thirty years, I have accumulated paintings, drawings, collages, studies, and fragments into a counter-archive. Its material forms include the Monolith, Everything Returns to the Earth, a sculptural accumulation of artworks; eleven exceptionally long painting scrolls; and thousands of fragments, many double-sided. In parallel, a digital archive of approximately 2.2 million files has been processed into 2,200 still and moving-image compositions through software, scripting, and computational experimentation.

These forms remain in motion. The Monolith is gradually dismantled, the scrolls unfold, and fragments enter new compositions, original artworks, publications, and an eleven-episode film with original soundscapes and music tracks. Each transformation preserves traces of what preceded it while opening possibilities for what comes next.

Weaving the Web, Medium: In Medias Res, Episode 1

Monolith: Everything Returns to the Earth, detail, We Breathe the Same Air, Rusha & Co., 2026

Scroll detail, We Breathe the Same Air, Rusha & Co., 2026

(Every Painting Is a Node)

Every painting is a node in an expanding network of images, encounters, and relationships.

Euclidean space describes the measurable dimensions of an artwork, its physical boundaries, scale, and position. Eulerian relationships, understood through the connections of a network, describe another condition: how images move across time, materials, people, and institutions, regardless of physical distance.

A painting occupies both conditions simultaneously. It exists as a material object and as part of a changing constellation of images, memories, and encounters. A fragment removed from the Monolith may become an independent artwork, reappear in a film, enter a publication, or find its way into a private collection. Its physical location changes, but its relationships continue to multiply. Together, these spatial and relational conditions offer a way of understanding the production and circulation of art today.

Fagments, We Breathe the Same Air, Counter-Archive, 4 x 4", Rusha & Co., 2026

Fragments, Installation view We Breathe the Same Air, Rusha & Co., 2026

(Circulation & Cultural Exchange)

The work extends beyond the individual artwork through film, publishing, exhibitions, and cultural encounters.

Through The Pioneers, Rusha & Co., Curator, and Agile Cinema®, paintings and their histories circulate across material and mediated forms. Each presentation generates new relationships between artworks, audiences, collectors, and institutions.

Rusha & Co. provides an exhibition and gallery context for the paintings and counter-archive. Curator extends their circulation through editorial publishing and cultural dialogue, while Agile Cinema® transforms images and encounters into an evolving film structure. These activities remain interconnected rather than separate destinations, allowing paintings to generate new images, narratives, and relationships across time.

Together, these initiatives are developing a multimedial, multivocal, and multichannel series throughout 2026–27, culminating in an exhibition and accompanying public programming at Rusha & Co. in winter 2027–28.

Hand-made limited edition posters for editorial and exhibition productions, Installation view, We Breathe the Same Air, Rusha & Co., 2026

Fragments, Installation view, Agile Cinema®, Rusha & Co., 2025

(Patronage & Participation)

To acquire an artwork is to participate in this evolving initiative, contributing to an investigation in which paintings, images, encounters, and their histories continue to unfold.

Patronage supports original artistic production, research, publishing, and exhibitions. Each level includes acquisitions from The Pioneers' counter-archive, connecting private ownership with the continuing circulation of artworks and ideas.

Introductory Patronage | 2 Months
Commission three original 4 × 4" artworks selected from the counter-archive, accompanied by a private conversation introducing the larger artistic investigation and its ongoing transformations.

Art & Research Patronage | 3 Months
Commission three original 4 × 4" artworks and one 10 × 10" artwork. Includes an extended encounter exploring the paintings, their histories, and the ideas informing the continuing artistic investigation.

Film & Publishing Patronage | 6 Months
Commission three original 4 × 4" artworks, one 10 × 10", and one 20 × 20" artwork. Includes expanded encounters and opportunities for agreed participation in the evolving film and editorial publications.

Exhibition Patronage | 12 Months
Commission three original 4 × 4" artworks, one 10 × 10", one 20 × 20", and one 36 × 36" artwork. Includes a series of encounters and opportunities for significant participation in the artistic investigation, film, publications, and planned exhibition at Rusha & Co.

Exclusive Series Patronage | 12 Months
Comprehensive patronage of the artistic investigation by an individual or organization, including original artworks, private encounters, expanded film and publishing production, significant exhibition participation, and additional acquisitions established by agreement. Includes prominent recognition across agreed exhibitions, publications, film, and media releases.

Inquiry | For individuals and organizations interested in supporting The Pioneers through original artwork acquisitions, research, film, publishing, and exhibitions.

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