Johnny Plastini draws increasingly on the tension between man-made and organic systems, the known and the unknown. His elaborate hypothesis of various phenomena include a collection of mysterious microbial environments painted on hand-crafted mortar panels, a suite of luminous atomic landscapes aggressively scraped from lithographic limestone, broken mechanical anomalies represented through “action printing” on thickly embossed paper, and several other alchemical investigations which seamlessly bind content to process. It is through unconscious serendipity and rigorous planning that each new interdisciplinary investigation functions effectively as a fusion of both ancient and futuristic aesthetics. Collectively, Plastini’s timeless works demonstrate the human attempt to impose order on natural forces, the reaction to such forces, and ultimately our ongoing struggle between the natural and the artificial, the rational and the instinctual.

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