Close-up-BCF

Once I began working on the Bar Code Fingerprint it was simple, almost automatic/meditative. The most difficult aspect was enduring fingers, brushes, and bowls of drying acrylic media. It actually taught me to respect this media because of its "permanent" nature and its "bite" into the flesh of this artist. I often call this kind of art activity/actuation, the "corn grinding" part of the work. It was a labor of love. I soon began to identify the patterns that were being created. Simply, they are: ends of the bar codes butting together; an oblique bar code square at each end; to be placed perpendicular to the plane of the bar code; there are points of "cacophony;" the patterns will fade at the edges of the design.