Life (Staten Island)

In the intro to the Staten Island art period, I say that I wanted to "express everything that I could see with my eyes closed."

In the interactive sketch, LIFE, 1970, I combined related expressions. I mixed media such as pencil, crayon, felt tip pens, and ink pen, on layers of clear plastic and papers, taped together in impermanent but interactive form.

In 2001 I scanned the graphics and imported them into an interactive Flash movie.

In 2014 using Google's Swiffy, I converted the Flash movie to HTML5, which you see above. If you don't see it above, try its own page. Alternatively, using the Flash movie, I captured two QuickTime movies, bitmap update or example of interactivity. Choices:

• Original bitmap (330 KB) or Simpler vector (250 KB) Flash movie, interactive
• Original bitmap update: YouTube or Vimeo
• Original bitmap example of interactivity: YouTube or Vimeo