In Progress – Drawings
Artwork
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
Hopes & Dreams
Hopes & Dreams
A work on panel (plywood) + acrylic. An idea that came along while thinking about being fragile. Hopefully, this will be an allegory for all of us. Everyone must risk being known, being public, interviewing for jobs or meeting new people. To move forward in life there is a fight that must happen.I thought about having ideas and thoughts about one’s future. Along the way there are successes and most likely many more failures. This is not necessarily about boxing, but about thoughts/ideas and effort/sweat going towards a better future — or a future that is being wrought out of life with many challenges along the way. This image became an essential one for me as I think about my station in life and what will be next. I have hopes and dreams, and I know the long shot that it will be if they come to pass. The “long shot” idea led me to the boxer. Brains or brawn, which will it be? Thinking about working as a creative and putting ideas out there for all to see. Currently at Exhale Unlimited Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles.
ExEden
here is the finished (so far) version of what I am calling “ExEden”
RGB skull update with gold leaf
The RGB is more subtle in this, but it is getting closer to the feel I was imagining. The idea here is about how we experience life now through Red, Green & Blue lights. The cassette represents old technology, with the shortcomings and ephemeral quality of recording our efforts.
The tools and bones surrounding the scull represent traditions and historical ways of making things. I had been looking at art of the Odd Fellows and their pennants and flags and cryptic symbolism. I thought I might start with that and evolve it into my own cultural vernacular for this future society.
I am still not sure what to do with the contract below the skull. I want it to be an agreement of some kind.
Ascent & Descent of Resourcefulness
Ascent / Descent of man. Resourcefulness in regards to dreams and solutions to difficult challenges.
OK, flying over land. My goal was to have some textural patterns that would clearly be agricultural. This is still way-in-progress. My other intent was the Monopoly™ houses. More resolved, but will be in the additional areas surrounding the flying man.
More thought about man’s ability to do things that are amazing to us — but only as far as we can see. We are amazed too easily.
The houses will be symbolic of all culture, building, homes, lifestyles.
Some Combines of the Rhombus Paintings
There seems to be some potential for experimenting with combinations of different rhombus polyptych’s.
I have been looking at how this may work into a much larger statement. The idea being that I have more than one individual piece that can be displayed in many potential forms.
A type of narrative that is more in keeping with how the world is perceived to us—a tapestry of seemingly-unconnected events.
The thought that there are events happening around us in a many-faceted cacophony which we pass through like a needle through fabric. We are affected by the events immediately around us and ripples of events surrounding us in radiating intersections.
Jennifer Bartlet / Elizabeth Murray / Jim Shaw / Mark Bradford / Tom Sachs / Robyn O’Neil
“You have to follow the work where it wants to go—it’s not about some little skill…” ~ Jackie Winsor
A couple of studio pictures
Just a couple of quick “candid” studio photos while working. I left some tools in there to get a perspective of some of the sizes.
The wall to the left shows a messy area, but most importantly, the silhouette stencil of my flying man.
Just a thought about the descent of man.
Thinking about man’s resourcefulness and the ability to learn, grow and recover what has been lost.
Start Sign – Blue Sky Thinking
“Blue Sky Thinking” is…
…Thinking that is not grounded or in touch in the realities of the present.
The proportion and symbolic silhouette is that of a stop sign. Hopefully there is enough graphic alignment with the original intent of the shape to be recognizable — but this with an entirely different conclusion. An entirely different suggestion is in the content of this message.
Texas Full of Tokyo’s
Take the expansive space of Texas with its iconic shape, then overlay into that the most dense city in the world. An experiment of a densely populated the area and let’s see what comes of this.
East & West collide. Many notions of both places can be construed. If you were to take these opposing mindsets and work them together what could happen?