Drew Harkey is an intermedia artist based in Florida. [1]

about the glassworks

The glassworks gallery is under construction. It is here as a placeholder and serves as an incentive for me to get some pieces ready for production. glassworks

about the photo studies

As we find meaning in ideas, ideas become reflected in patterns, and patterns take meaning. photo studies

about the color studies

What we experience “out there” in the world is the effect of heuristics in our brain. As a result, existence occurs only in representations. Actuality is perceivable, but is it ultimately knowable? color studies

about the soundforms

These sound compositions are created with glassworks in mind. I imagine what white light ‘sounds’ like, passing through the ‘liquid’ of each glass form — an interaction of waves through waves. The resulting spectrum is sometimes intentional, sometimes aleatoric, like the qualities of glass art itself.

The aim is to achieve a harmonic resonance of combined sounds — tones ‘heard’ in the piece that are not explicitly played by an instrument — created by the interference of the soundwaves that are ‘mixed’ in the mind of the listener. The result would be a sonic ‘color’ inferred but not really on the spectrum, like the visual analogue of magenta.

Each composition has a title corresponding to a constituent element in a color pigment, a metaphor for the ‘particle’ qualities of light. soundforms

about the artist

Accumulus.[2] From the latin ad/ac (to) and cumulus (gather in a heap). Our self — who we are — is not a whole, but a cumulation. Not an accumulation. The goal is not to “acquire,” or even obtain. It is to become.

Our lives are an aggregate of experiences and influences. Here are some of mine. accumulus

about the website

Code
This website is hand-coded in PHP, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3 (with the older, archived parts in HTML4 Transitional).

This portfolio is a place where I practice my scripting. I started with a blank canvas, and built the underlying template and developed the front-end from scratch without frameworks or bootstraps.[3] No website, however, is an island, and I appreciate the generous spirit of the open source community from whom I have learned much, and without whom this site would not be possible.

In addition, I received a lift from the following contributors:

I developed an infinite load javascript (with some bits for WCAG accessibility) for both vertical and horizontal scrolling (which I also added), all of which was built upon the original work of:
jQuery-screw

My image enlargements are assisted by:
Juicebox

The sound file player is built on a wireframe version of:
jPlayer

Animated background images are powered by:
Vegas

Tooltip trickery is built upon the work of:
Osvaldas Valutis

I built an Apache server with the help of docs at:
Digital Ocean

Aleatorical art
The digital art pieces in the soundforms section of the website are original works I created[4] for author and psychoanalytic researcher Faith Harkey, who is currently exploring the nature of consciousness and the unconscious aspects of the human imagination. The Imaginalia of Faith Harkey

Typography
Set in 100-900 weight:
Gogh
Baskerville

Creative Commons
There is a placeholder image in the place where my original work will one day go. The glass work on the homepage is by
tanakawho

Privacy
To make improvements to the website and find errors, I use a privacy-aligned analytics tool called Clicky to log and analyze web traffic. I do not use other cookies and do not monitor cookies from other websites you visit before arriving. Nor do I know what other services you are logged into before arriving here. I use Clicky in an anonymized way, and no personal data is logged. You may review Clicky’s privacy policy.
Clicky

on beingsocial

I do not have an account on LinkedIn, Facebook, Xwitter, Instagram, TikTok, et al., so profiles for Drew Harkey or Andrew David Harkey on those sites are, alas, not me. I do like a good asynchronous communication, though. connect

Bot note: An “About page” gets a lot of bot traffic, so I am using .htaccess directives to block bots at the root. To those professionals using AI “screening” or other data-broker scrapers, try visiting this site with a people-browser or assistive technology like a screen reader. This site is WCAG accessible.