Flees or Flies or Fleas or Flys or Ticks?

Paul DeMarinis

2025

Medium: wood, clocks, thread, organza, insect-based shellac, magnets, video, microcontroller, leds, sensors, electricity, code, feathers, arrow, screws

Dimensions: 21.5” x 21.5” x 21.5” on custom pedestal: 42” x 17.5” x 17.5”

Price: Upon request

Description: much of my work in sound has visited the techniques of loop and dither - two different ways of stretching a sonic moment out into an eventful stasis within which the mind can hover, perhaps. working in sound is, quintessentially, working with time as a medium. as with all work that deeply concerns, eventually imponderable questions arise. the one that tasks me here, if removed from the realm of ideas and cast into the flat (tho’ hinged) world of words, might go something a little like this - how is it that our concept of time is observationally asymmetrical while it is representationally symmetrical? Flees or Flies or Fleas or Flys or Ticks? aims to schematize this conundrum and along the way to make a modest offering to the unhinged muse of puns, may there be one. materials: wood, clocks, thread, organza, insect-based shellac, magnets, video, microcontroller, leds, sensors, electricity, code, feathers, arrow, screws Paul DeMarinis (2025) afterthought: in truth sonic time is a little different in concept, inasmuch as it seems to have an interior and an exterior. However, being devoid of location, it basically adds up to the same thing, except the puns would be different. net result: no questions answered, no problems solved; pure research. enjoy.