In my Made_ready series, I am exploring the process by which digital art
is becoming a recognized art form.  This series of work references
Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde movement of Dadaism. 
In Duchamp’s sculpture Bicycle Wheel, he fused randomly found objects
like a stool and bicycle wheel to create art.  The sculpture was a reaction
to the concept of the original, one-of-a-kind work of art.  Although
Bicycle Wheel was arguably the first and most important of the Readymades
the original has since been lost.  It is only the reproductions of the sculpture
that are exhibited worldwide.  Duchamp’s Readymades and the concept
they represent mark an acceptance of reproduction in art. 

In this series of works, I have used my photographs of Bicycle Wheel on
display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and have fused, manipulated and
digitally altered the images to create yet another reproduction of Bicycle Wheel.  
Each piece was created by separating the components of Duchamp’s sculpture
and digitally recombining them in a collage.  The Made_ready series employs
and celebrates the possibilities of digital manipulation while contextualizing
the process of digital art’s acceptance as a new media.

This series was first exhibited in 2007 at the Hangman Gallery as part of
Nuit Blanche Toronto.