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Average Person vs. Leonardo DiCaprio Fuel Usage Comparison
Regular Person:
20K miles / year at 20 m.p.g
vs.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Private Jet:
358 gallons/hour in a 3 hour flight uses more fuel than I do in a year.
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Accidental Monster Profile on Binder Paper
Thinking about man-made things, this led me to Mary Shelley's book “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” and how it wonderfully relates to humanity's prowess in combining things to create new opportunities, yet with each venture, unforeseen circumstances are looming around the corner. This work also has elements relating to the tapestry of humanity and its quest for inclusion, balance, and unity as the world becomes smaller and our cultures must merge.
Recently this was included in a show “Unity Through States of Being” at Modified Arts Gallery. The opening coincided with Art Detour and then the First Friday for April 2017 was reviewed by Margaret Swafford of The Arts Beacon. This notice my piece "Accidental Monster" received was really encouraging and reminds me of the various ways art takes on a life of its own. This makes me happy to see, hear and read the effect of people interacting with this work. From Umberto Eco to Jackson Pollack — but especially Roland Barthes speaks of how a created work must forge on with its own life and path. A created work exists to be interpreted and enjoyed while acting as a mirror to the world around it. Affected by the viewer's personal frame of mind, the era it exists in and to some extent, the political climate surrounding its current location.
To Inform & Delight…
“The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says,
Nature As Resource
The objects gathered here have significance to each other, loosely based on the themes running through this series. An interesting note about the depicted femur can be read here in this blog "A Seekers Thoughts". While the rib is full of references — you can have some fun thinking about that pairing. I first read about the Frustum here in Seth Godin's blog and thought about how this applies to everything from politics to the arts.
Studies for Accidental Monster, In Progress
In Progress – Drawings
The Race
Works in Progress – mixed on paper
Astro & Anti-Goals
Infinite Use
A simple doodle drawing that has become a painting.
When Here and Now Cease to Matter
4 Quartets quartet interpretations Babel 2.0, 55Wx54H” Descent of Man, 66Wx44H” Jason Emmons, Jeff Del Nero, Stella Perez, Michael Largent Burnt Norton “At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; neither from nor towards, at the still point, there the dance is…surrounded by a grace of sense, a white light still … Read more