SEED Checklist

Brian Oakes

Aluminum extrusion, acrylic, custom hardware, cameras, monitors, 3d printed parts in ABS and Resin, custom PCB’s, motors, wood, foam, paint, glue, thread, images printed on paper

Brian Oakes

Aluminum extrusion, acrylic, fans, lava lamps, 3d printed parts in PLA, custom hardware, custom cables, custom PCB’s, Lava lamps, motors, light bulbs, power supplies, belts

Brian Oakes

A wall mounted display case containing: ten homemade rubies, four wisdom teeth (courtesy of the artist), two shards of vivianite (sourced from a seller in Brazil who claims these were “hand selected from a graveyard”), a sculpture depicting a skull made of 20 AWG copper wire encased in a piezoelectric crystal (also known as Rochelle Salt or potassium sodium tartrate, characterized by their pyroelectricity property in which these growths can generate a temporary voltage when heated, cooled, or experience mechanical pressure), eight chunks of fordite (also known as Detroit Agate or Motor City Agate (which are formed from the buildup of thousands of layers of automotive paint slag on tracks and skids in auto plants) carved and tumbled into minimalist shapes, three Campo del Cielo meteorite fragments, two Prophecy Pseudomorphs (made up of hematite, whose name is derived from the Greek word for “blood”), a chunk of shungite and the selenite wand that protected its passage to the artist, a plastic army man in the throngs of a violent act cast in piezoelectric crystals (see above note), a small totem made of wax from dozens of Babybel 8.5oz cheese snack collected during (to be cast in zinc plated copper legs of every component clipped onto the floor of the artists studio between 2020 and 2024)

Brian Oakes

A wall mounted display case containing: 18 homemade rubies and 18 copper sulfate crystal seeds

Brian Oakes

A wall mounted display case containing: 5 copper sulfate crystals grown by the artist over the course of one month, a specimen of electrically induced copper crystals (after one month of growth), two “Devil’s Heads” seed pods (also known as the fruit of Trapa natans, a plant that has the common name “water chestnut”), 4 freshwater pearls, two homemade rubies, one stone of baltic amber with 5 Insect trapped 40-60 million years ago, one dried branch of red coral

Brian Oakes

A wall mounted display case containing: three homemade rubies, two copper sulfate crystal seeds, one “Devil’s Heads” seed pod (also known as the fruit of Trapa natans, a plant that has the common name “water chestnut”), a CD4017 CMOS Decade Counter with 10 Decoded Outputs in the DIP16 format that was improperly connected and exploded, 3 piezoelectric crystal seeds (also known as Rochelle Salt or potassium sodium tartrate, characterized by their pyroelectricity property in which these growths can generate a temporary voltage when heated, cooled, or experience mechanical pressure), a chunk of shungite, and 5 freshwater pearls.

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, custom printed circuit boards, foam, balsa wood, denim, sand.

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, pennies, laser cut acrylic, black ribbon

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, wooden panel, colored pencil

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, custom printed circuit boards, foam, balsa wood, sand

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, custom printed circuit boards, foam, plastic, balsa wood

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, custom printed circuit boards, foam, balsa wood, sand, wire

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, fifteen home-made rubies, laser cut acrylic

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, laser cut acrylic, copper, shungite, fordite, freshwater pearl, copper sulfate crystal seed, piezoelectric crystal seed, selenite, petrified amber

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, custom printed circuit boards, foam,

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, foam, sand, plaster

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, laser cut acrylic, bladeless knife with no handle

Brian Oakes

Oak pallet, army men cast in piezoelectric crystals, laser cut acrylic, black ribbon