When cotton and corn plants suffered under the budworms, they discharged their own blend
of those same chemicals — «
kind of like a
bar code in a grocery store,» says Lewis.
What's more, the works, and their titles, reflect a younger artist's unapologetic aesthetic sensibility that includes pop, rock, and mod in its source material, not to mention Vegas Baroque and Marfa Minimalism, Dan Flavin, Kenneth Noland,
bar codes, Bridget Riley, psychedelia, electronic, Ed Ruscha, test patterns, screen savers, Hang Ten T - shirts, Saturday Night Fever disco floors, and the communication sequences in Close Encounters
of the Third
Kind.