This is the beginning of some interpretations of what it would look like to represent all of the major places I have been in my life. This is only a technical approach with experimentation with how it may look. I have some more research to do in regards to the actual locations.
Still Life? Anonymous Portrait Thinking about the way we consume or appreciate art in the internet age. Even considering how we interact with each other, and the internet’s provision of access to each other and to images. This group of images acquired from the Rijksmuseum program called “RijksStudio.” Artificial Realities. Even to the uninitiated, these … Read more
These latest maps depict prevalent trips that happened towards the latter end of the 70’s for me. Trips between aunt and uncle’s house and what would eventually become a new location for my parents to live. This was just before I moved to Los Angeles to go to Art Center College of Design. We moved … Read more
Continued development of how these patterns of trips and locations maps of my life can overlay to become visuals that are abstract lines and patterns. These seem to touch on a little bit of what I envisioned, and that’s exciting. But they do seem too personal, and not as aesthetic as I had imagined. Possibly … Read more
This is a test compilation of stills set at 3 frames per image. It is composed of people, places, activities, past jobs, influential artists, various events, memories and locations that summarize my life. With the question of ‘how can I display my mind/memories/thoughts to others?’ I am approaching this with the idea of putting in … Read more
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 … 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