studio updates

"Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." - Lord Byron

I feel that art both keeps me alive and kills me and I have a love/hate relationship with paint. Sometimes the lure of a "real' job flashes in my mind, but quickly goes away. I'm juggling new techniques while keeping my work mine. This is my experimental, research time and all of my feelings are probably normal I suppose, when going through the process. It's heart-tearing and soul sucking sometimes, but there is great joy in that.

Explanations make things so meaningless, and I am not apologizing for not using big words and philosophical theories to make my work appear important.

one thought or a million

Detail of brown paper work 3'x3'

I've also started using some recycled materials in my work as well. That helps me feel slightly better about all the waste I am producing. In about a week I produced only 1 small bag of waste. Half of it could have been made into compost. It's something I have to encourage my landlord to do, if I stay here longer.

I've been working on a couple different things. On Wednesday I decided to do a show soon with my friend, Justin Davis-Metzner. It was a pretty spur of the moment decision too and that's quite brilliant. Deets to come as we go along. Quite looking forward to a sort of low brow, non mainstream show :) Today we should be discussing it. Hurrah!

work in progress

Project 1

I am doing preliminary work on this one, and half excited about it. I may put it on the backburner, but it may be a short quick one. I work on it when I can stand it. It's a total love-hate thing, but something I want to do. I don't know if anyone will understand that (sorry for being cryptic).

Project 2

I'm working on brown paper right now, continuing on the theme of words, writing and large scale stuff. This may be a 12' piece or a polytych. It may also be part of an installation piece.

Detail of first 3 layers of the brown paper piece. Working on these things suck every ounce of my energy. I feel more attached to this work, but it feels good - it's like a good workout. Sometimes I have to sleep it off, and sometimes I am energised.

I'm a little green pac round and...

unplug your damn appliances because they're evil. Well ok I meant unplug them when you're not actually using them. You do know about phantom loads right?
So I did some front cover work for my aunt's project about energy consumption. This is the version sans text because I really hate the text.
I also hate explaining myself.
Booooriiiinnnngggggg (see below).

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my mommeh.

back to basics

I may be taking up watercolour again and painting landscapes and still life. The horror.
Hehehe.

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Other than offline, I've been sort of doing some other work, so it's been busy. I have not forsaken you all.
A warm welcome to all the new readers and followers and potential buyers of my work. *Squeal* I have a zillion updates but they'll be spaced out and I'm going to be net-less mostly for another couple weeks as I'm in Trinidad.