Mike Olin

We are subject to an overwhelming wave of information and choice. Increasingly we are in need of sub-contractors to filter this ocean of disparate activity because it is all too much for one to absorb. At the same time the potential the infinite options present is tantalizing and potentially euphoric. We must adapt to this by learning how to read many signs at once.

The early cubists were interested in picturing a newly considered fourth dimension. Contemporary science has brought us the makings of a new paradigm which include the notion of multidimensional space, morphic resonance, the emptiness of matter, and other theories that greatly expand our understanding of life, love, and the universe.

In the stickbug paintings I use paint language to bring together several fields that roughly represent the numbing noise of our times.