Carpenter combines art and science, modeling invisible spaces and relationships by realizing form through the manipulation of time. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology and minors in Studio Art and Psychology. He then worked in the Biological and Brain Imaging Centers at the California Institute of Technology and Morphosis Architects.
Invisible spaces / impossible spaces looks at invisible relationships through the use of technology to enhance our understanding of invisible relationships through space and time.
This project is going to have something to do with the patterns that form in the sand on the beach as a discussion of the forces that are at work in the generation of the pattern system (sand, rocks, seaweed, water, gravity, wind, weather, birds) and the observer's impact on the system. the project deals with making visible the invisible relationships in the system (how each affects the other), potential, and (un)predictability.
This work grew out of peripeteia (descending leaf studies), 2008, in which (dis)continuities in space and time were examined by modeling the sum spatial volume occupied by a falling leaf over ~1/3 second. In peripeteia, high speed videos of a leaf falling were used to digitally model the form and movement of the leaf. A trace of the object path was then exported as a volume and built with a 3D printer. the resulting sculpture embodies the beauty and fluidity of the 4D space occupied by the leaf during its fall, and is suggestive of the internal and external forces that affect the movement.
This work is also an extension of the space drawings, 2008, that turned qualitative spaces into a formal subjects through investigations of multiple spatial and temporal dimensions.
