This particular experiment is an attempt to compile various trips I have taken in my life. This is comprehensive in a way that it will depict each walk to school, each driven trip to work, each vacation (special location).These are depicted as a linear shape, cut out and placed onto a bar in a way … Read more

In the process of depicting my various homes, paths and distances being traced and then converted into an abstract of my movements in life. I have been listing out locations and point-to-point trips I made in multiple ways. Walking to school. Walking home to a babysitter. Driving to college. The locations of all of the … Read more

Some thoughts on ravens and crows.

Meta: denoting something of a higher or second-order kind. Macro: very large in scale, scope, or capability. Micro: minute in scope or capability. See levels of observation. Charles & Ray Eames Powers of Ten film.

Poetic Synthesis, Linking older work to newer work, Finding a “Golden Thread” in my lifetime of work. Examine poetic knowledge, poetic critique – possibly the work of Donald Kuspit. Continue with the search for the parallels in meaning, especially how my faith informs my work. Faith informed process? What does that look like? Pop Surrealism … Read more

 Some of my early sculpting on an idea of the specific redwood tree as a sanctified example. On Sunday I was reminded of how a tree is one thing while it is alive and once cut down we think of it as being “dead” but it has gone on to become something else. I thought … Read more

In searching out the tree species and method of capturing a tree’s essence I found this article. Middle Fork – MadArt from John Grade on Vimeo.

January 2015 Over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend our APU MFA program will re-convene and have a 3 day critique session. I am currently preparing everything to hang and then, preparing all of it to get packed into my car for the trip to Azusa. On the way I will be traveling with … Read more

This is an attempt to put the construction and engineering on the exterior of the piece and the “design” and aesthetics on the interior. I wanted a vehicle that made sense to me, so by putting the reversal into this cube helped me to visualize what the construction could become without being too contrived.

Rhombus experiments with some stretched canvas and surface treatments.

This shows the vertical alignment on a toned wallso you are able to see the white-on-white. here it is in the studio to see scale.it’s approx. 60″ tall.

Some thoughts regarding an introduction to an additional illusion with the panels. Here I have a foam core board maquette that could be built with either panel or stretched canvas. This process can give the added experience of moving around a piece for a new view to the artwork. I have been thinking of how … Read more

Having spent some recent time thinking about the before & after occurrence of an idea in our brain, especially me trying to describe to my 2D design class how to “brain storm” this article popped out at me.Isaac Asimov wrote a paper in 1959 for a spinoff of MIT called Allied Research Associates that addresses … Read more

Robert Genn painting from hisflat-bottomed scow, on theNicomekl River in British Columbia This article from Sara Genn, the daughter of Robert Genn, a Canadian landscape painter who I admire not only for his landscapes and abstractions, but his clarity of writing and observation. I get these writings weekly and they really inspire me to continue delving towards … Read more

just playing with some line and concepts that have been rattling around.

 As I concern myself with why I am using this shape as a foundation or building block for these abstractions it continues to keep my interest thinking about this type of “grid” that can grow in various directions. The forms that appear when arranging the different pieces together still give me a sense of fun … Read more

So, on this project I wanted to convert my drawing into 3D. I made a small sculpture to work out what this might be like as a dimensional concept. This maquette is 6″ tall at the back of the chair, and 5″ wide at the very bottom of the tree stump.In this I am continuing … Read more