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.
Thinking about man’s resourcefulness and the ability to learn, grow and recover what has been lost.
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?
Thinking about the density of Tokyo and what it would be like to reduce our overall land footprint in
the the United States to a microscopic level. I chose 10 locations to more than equal our population with a 25 year estimated advance in growth.
All living areas, cities that already have a dense population that can be migrated into the most efficient living centers – ziggurats that employ gardens and parks in proportion to each tower. With commercial areas for meeting and transportation centers to collect people at HyperLoop + This one too, hubs to easily get to specific work and recreational zones located around the U.S.
We currently have developed less than 5% of our land, but with focused density we could cut this by a factor of 100. Then use 
more open space for recreation and leisure. Also, by focusing our
agricultural and manufacturing to more efficient locations and geographic relationships we would gain a very powerful use of land.
We can start to be more efficient with how we handle our water, energy needs, food, living environment, daily regimen of exercise, human interaction and social connectedness.
Other Research:
“If Necessity is the Mother of Invention, Then is Technology the Father of Dependence?”
With the continued use of the rhombus shape, I am questioning whether the shape lends itself to the idea of an underlying structure of science and math as an interlocking foundation for the inventive attempts at connecting technologies. A form that gives us a look at a world where people strive forward towards each other with the hope that each lunge will make us incrementally more self-sufficient while seeking to be further distanced from a consideration of the unseen.
TEXASWORLD Plan
Acres in Texas: 171,904,640
World Population: 6,602,224,175
= 38.5 people per acre. Density Goal: 10 dwellings/acres = 3.8 people per dwelling.
If the world was turned into a Monopoly® Game. How long would it take to become unbalanced again? Can we make everything even? Is equality a possibility? Let’s give everyone the same access to food, shelter, etc., what would happen?
I mapped the 150 most populated world cities into the map of texas at 1″ = 20 miles. I found that so many cities have such a small footprint, while the largest cities in China occupy such large swatches of land it overwhelmed some of the space in the map. It was quite a contrast to see in front of me.
The exercise of connecting the cities with the white constellation reminds me of an internet that doesn’t have to follow any particular geographical order, but can jump randomly in any direction.
The idea of having the iconic shape of Texas as the first thing you see give an impression of one type of mindset. In many ways the shape of Texas is as recognizable as the U.S. map. Texas also is an strange representation of a “typical American” so it seems appropriate to use this shape as a generalization of our society.
Also, Texas having flown under six different country flags also seems to be a kind of reminder of the history of the state.
The great pyramids of Giza, Khufu, Cheops. B-2 Stealth Bomber. 1942. Math Lesson, A Tale of Two Cities, thinking about afterlife, and ways to maneuver the great beyond. Thinking about vehicles in that process.
“If I loose my grip, will I take flight?” a lyric from a Bruce Cockburn song called Strange Waters.
This is quite wonderful double entendre regarding holding on to things that either hold you down or potentially keep you safe vs the idea of hanging on to a branch on a cliff, or an airplane wing that once you have let go, you will surely die.
The imagery here is about hands, arms, etc. They are also of different colors. This is intentional and supposed to call you to compare.
Both scenarios are different intentionally too.
The imagery here is about hands, arms, etc. They are also of different colors. This is intentional and supposed to call you to compare.
The imagery here is about hands, arms, etc. They are also of different colors. This is intentional and supposed to call you to compare.
I have this thought that has been progressing and I am starting to get more of a positive feeling about the combination of figures. A lot of talk with this work has been centered around the contrast of the two scenes. Thoughts about location and activity. How we are not naturally able to coexist. While there’s the aspect of work and war, there is also the concept of how work vs. play can be derived here too.
Target workers is an idea I have had regarding the use of illegal laborers. They are targeted to do work that others would not do. These same people are targeted
In thinking of the dilemma of life’s journey, I have been seeking images that describe the challenges with which we are daily faced. An idea I had was to show temptation in a way that could be depicted in a graphic form.
The oxymoron of a camouflaged decoy is one that
Thinking about an approach to painting that is at once out of my usual approach while incorporating some disjointed thoughts that have been strongly
“Is This What I Do? Or, is this What I Am?”
“I am offended. The Art World Favors Dead People.”
“Is there any art form that is so powerful that it cannot be surpressed?” ~ thoughts
Recently finding some more writings of Mako I keep getting inspired by the concept of our responsibility to cultivate culture — all the while we are immersed in a world that works against our vision of eternity. …evidence of the hand of God in creation, with surrounding circumstances Makoto Fujimura: “To me, to … Read more
My “Auto Mono” prints: This has been something that has made me curious for a while. So, after making a group of linoleum cuts with some rhombus shaped concepts, this seemed like a good time to try and make a way to print at home without a press. After a bunch of conceptual … Read more
