Firework

“Firework Drawing #20” 2007 lit firework residue on paper, cardboard and collage 38 1/4 in x 50 in

Firework Drawings”These large works on paper are made by exploding and containing live fireworks, resulting in bursts of saturated color that are overlaped and collaged into abstract compositions.

Good-Time Mix Machine: Scrambler Drawings”I connected a gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured them into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride was in motion, paint sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath. The result is a series of enormous hypocycloid designs which recorded the hidden patterns created by the ride as it turned.

“Qix 7” 2002 digital c print 16 in x 15 in

These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80’s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while I played the games. By recording each second of an entire game on one frame of film, I captured complex patterns not normally seen by the eye.

Gunflakes”are repeated circular rubbings of handguns found in pawn and guns shops in New Mexico. Installed as a group, they form an impressive virtual arsenal that appears as a blizzard from afar.

More Rosemarie Fiore

Derelict_station

The overgrown remains of Lilbourne station in Northamptonshire, on the former LNWR line from Rugby to Market Harborough which closed in 1966, one of thousands of rural stations and lines which were closed by the Beeching Axe.