Then a funny thing happened with some of the artwork from the Rjiks Museum Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters by Hendrick Avercamp, 1608. I started messing around with this image found on the museum website. The Rijks Museum has been encouraging artists to work with images from their collection. I was happy to oblige. This … Read more

a series of repeated “frames” with stencil of a bone. Thinking of the reality of a still life. It is no longer alive, it’s “still/dead” and waiting there to be painted. Put upon multiple frames, reminds me of the video culture we have become. Unless it moves, people tend not to look at it. other … Read more

My thoughts lately have been about using graphic design as an expression. I have looked up the term “graphic expression” and it’s not necessarily a widely used term in the arts, but it does help me start to place myself in a “conversation” in the art world.  I am not a street artist, and not … Read more

Studio #5 at APU this summer. I jammed in all of the different work that I brought. This configuration allows me to parse out the different items, and speak to how I arrived at some of these visual conclusions. One area, the unstretched canvases to the right are based on maps from throughout my life. … Read more

“A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing” ~ Susan Sontag (as seen in Birdman) ———————————————— “Q: Why the rhombus shape? I have worked in a rectangle before. This shape compels me forward,  making one challenges me.” “set apart for its intended purpose.” “…find the purpose of a mark. Each mark … Read more

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