Work
Tufte is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. Tufte has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
His work habits are forward-looking. He is intensely critical in the self-editing process as he pulls in and casts out ideas from books, journals, posters, auction catalogues, and other less common source genres. He invites others to critique his work in progress and may nurture dozens of ideas over months in various states of growth and fruition. He deletes almost every photograph he takes. Over time, he deletes most of what he writes on his own forum, ET Notebooks. Every printing of every book corrects numerous small blemishes, ranging from color registration to kerning and hinting. This pattern of work is repeated in sculpture, where he digs through sources ranging from other art, other genres, most notably Richard Feynman, to flea markets and nuclear power plants and fields of grass in search of forms and ideas from which he selects some to build up into models, table pieces, and occasionally larger landscape pieces. Even some finished, large scale works are reworked heavily, but at the same time, some random sculptural equivalents of brush strokes or artifacts of a piece's former life are retained, a degree of wabi-sabi, as may be seen in the Rocket Science (circa 2006-2009, Hogpen Hill, Connecticut).
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