This piece, made up of three free-standing sculptures, is a visualization of the popular vote breakdown in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the 2016 presidential election. The height of each base is representative of the number of electoral votes of each state. The height of the smaller blue, red, and gray columns is representative of the number of votes for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and all other candidates, respectively.

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Trump’s Twitter Circus is a visualization of the president’s use of punctuation in his tweets. The piece chronicles his Twitter feed in real time, displaying the ending punctuation as a block on the screen. A viewer can mouse over each block to read the text from the source tweet.

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The two sculptures comprising Transition of Power (From Hope to Highrise Demagogy) are extruded favicons for political campaigns. A favicon (“favorite icon”) is a 16-pixel by 16-pixel logo that appears alongside the URL or inside the tab in most browsers.  Here, a block of wood represents each pixel of the favicon, with the height of that block determined by the pixel’s color’s luminance (perceived brightness). The darker the color of the pixel, the taller the block of wood.  The piece is made up of two sculptures:  one is the favicon for the Obama campaign in 2008 while the other is for the Trump campaign in 2016.  The Obama favicon was built in 2008 as part of Building a Better America (Two Plans).

The Trump favicon pictured in front of Proposed Design for a New Presidential Emblem at the Blocks exhibition in March of 2017.

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