David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum

I started tinkering with computers pretty late. I had a used Commodore64 when I was a kid, purchased from a yard sale. I wrote some silly 10 PRINT “POOP”; GO TO 10 programs but mostly it was a video game machine. During my last full year of art school I took a computer aided design class and plonked around in Adobe Photoshop on Apple Macintosh Quadra computers. I began playing with printers then. I remember creating a small, 8” x 10” swirly abstract paint study on a canvas board. I scanned the little painting. I printed it in color and black and white. I photocopied the painting. I took the scan into Photoshop and ran a half-tone screen filter over it, creating a knock-off Roy Lichtenstein version. Then I took all of these prints to my local Kinko’s copy shop and had them spiral bound together with a cardboard cover. I glued the original painting to the front.At Kinko’s they had a giant photocopier. 18” x 24” inches. A huge slab of glass suspended over a cavernous machine. I created…