Mike Parker
Feb 19, 2008
Mike Parker must have a hairy back and flat feet to be so gifted in the variety of artistic mediums that he is. Likened to separate functionalities of the brain, Mike divides his specialties into two categories: Dispatches and Inversions.
Dispatches is a website dedicated to his series of large-scale form renderings. These works appear to be constructed with ink, charcoal and perhaps even graphite to convey contour, but then subtle shading is added to build the form. The sketches are loose but retain excellent proportion and perspective precision. I found it difficult to imagine a techno producer calmly dragging charcoal across paper to form a gestural image when he spends the other half of his time counting beats, interlacing heavy chords and creating verbose sound. It makes perfect sense that his other half is called Inversions.
Inversion is not only the inverse of chords but also, the process of finding function from a given such that the product under a particular operation is the identity. Mike has that power to take one thing and distort it, using his own methods, into a new tech-symphony with its own identity. His carefully constructed tracks have a robotic and manufactured quality, a lack of human interaction. They drag, stretch and leap, gathering momentum until they climax. Similar to his drawings, an abstract dimension is met with his musical endeavors.
Did I mention he is also an Art Teacher? Guess that discredits the old saying, “those who can’t do, teach.”
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