January 29, 2010 · 1 Comment
Hello all,
Here are some older works I never got around to uploading. They both were produced MOSTLY in acrylic and are terribly photographed. Imagine less crooked, more vibrant colors, etc…. sigh. A digicam is definitely a next splurge purchase of mine. Happy Friday. The one on the right is slowly becoming inspiration for a new installation project of mine…. The other one is just too old to revisit.
Enjoy!!!! Happy Friday.
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Yellow Hat, 2007
Acrylic on paper
18 x 24 |
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Liberty?, 2008
Acrylic & Marker on paper
18 x 24 |
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Hey,
I made this little work the other day… Kind of had a lot of fun with it. Very expressionistic. Liked the idea of moving around the little canvases and manipulating the work. Very interactive.
The work is a series of 2 x 2 canvas tiles with three being only 2 x 1.
Enjoy.
See manipulations, reconfigurations, and more?
Keep reading →
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I’m just posting some pieces now. Analysis/explanations will come later – its a blend of my older shrine works, found art, digital media, and me exploring a new more sculptural art form. Also its fairly three dimensional. One side is ochre/sparse, the other is mostly greenish/busy. Its one piece not two separate ones.
Enjoy.
*** IMPORTANT CAVEATS: 1) I have no White walls in my house so the photos are a bit… well not so good and 2) I don’t actually own a camera so the quality of the photos is somewhat bad (i borrowed a cheap digicam from a friend).
The Simorgh //Mixed Media (dried flowers, metal vase, metal pots, plastic, mcardboard, acrylic, oil pastel, paper, pearl earrings) on wood // About 5.5 feet x 3.5 feet x 6 inches (my measuring is a bit off) //
CLOSE UP for the top part of one side of the piece:
Interested to see more photos? photos
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Hmmm…. I thought I’d enter a free contest because I’m a sucker for these. Also. To Anyone reading:
Click the banner for details, you could win a free re-design of your blog from Gisele Jaquenod!
My resolution was do more art! Consistently! With more pizzaz! Now you know.
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I was recently confronted with the difficult (and frankly impossible) task of explaining what art is through a blog I’ve been following (http://kseverny.wordpress.com)…. I thought about it and came up with my answer to it and wanted to post if for nothing else than to remember it:
Put simply: Art is meaning in its’ purist form. Art is how human kind refashions the world to make it more comprehensible and have more depth. Without art – food is something that subsistence instead of something we enjoy. Without art – sound is only noise instead of melodies which inspire or sadden. Without art – movement is only a way to get from place to another instead of the emotive narratives shown through dance. In the end, an artist is an architect of meaning and destiny in its’ truest form .
Thoughts?
Mixed Media Self Portrait circa 2004
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December 23, 2009 · 1 Comment
Had a chance to get some work on my next installation/shrine project. I had a few posts earlier… Here’s an other sneak peak: A “digital sketch” of sorts from photoshop that I’m incorporating in the piece. Its kinda rough right now and I might do a few more edits before its is “finished”.
Anyways, enjoy for now. Happy Holidays!
Simargh - preview, Digital Collage
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December 18, 2009 · 1 Comment
Crane
Another quick post of a piece I finished a few weeks ago…. It is a very large (my lack of measuring tape is absurd) acrylic and vellum paper on a mirror.
There is a small story about this one.
I had this fantastically beautiful dream about a month or so ago… I was running along a perfectly blue pond with red flowers and brush flying in the wind. When the pond ended, I jumped into the air and flew – transforming into a crane.
Anyways, this work is born from that vision. I hope you enjoy!
P.S. I also updated my “About” page and added the following self-portrait. I did it years ago but… kinda suits my personality:
Mixed Media Self-Portrait
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December 14, 2009 · 1 Comment
Stained Glass – Watercolor on Paper
No Eyes
Watercolor on Paper
Just a few watercolor sketches. Enjoy!
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Hi all,
I finally snagged ahold of a camera. Here are some pictures of three previously constructed shrines.
The first was meant to evoke the idea of the “old world” roadside shrines. Its meant to be interactive where candles and flowers would slowly build upon it creating an ever-evolving piece. Christian symbolism – while present – is accentuated by the pagentry of ever changing candles, incense, and objects which alter and inform the piece:
Old World Shrine
Detail: Shrine
Detailed 2
The second was an experiment exploring the question… What are the “modern” roadside shrines of today? What spirituality is found within the life of a secularist? In a sense, I explored the idea of music, film, and technology distilled through the vehicle of television and mp3 players are the modern version of hymns and candles. We connect to a sexualized spirituality through the heavy drum beat of hip hop or house music while watching stylized airbrushed unreal celebrities or models.
Shrine to Modernity
The third piece was simply a characture of a shrine. It neither explored old world spirituality nor its more modern incarnations. Instead I seeked to take from an object and form a shrine around it. The idea of the suit of clubs – also known as acorns or flowers… Appealed to me. The Queen held a sense a femine security: A woman enjoying the scent of a flower and living in a carefree palace. Indeed… this shrine in a sense followed the ancient idea of shrines or churches or temples being palaces for the object it encased.
The Shrine of the Queen
Queen Shrine (2)
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Oh I dug up the picture that I took which inspired me to make the one below. That entire day I produced some awesome photography…. A friend and I went through some old abandoned meat factories in Fort Worth and just wandered the city taking pictures. It was one of those perfect summer days – almost eerily quiet. Too bad the photos disappeared when my laptop self destructed. This is maybe the only photo left:
Enjoy!
Amy and the Railroad
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