Blog:sketches

Supermoon

mar — Sun, 06 May 2012 20:18:00 +0000

Construction site 3

mar — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:04:20 +0000

Construction site 2

mar — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:08:22 +0000

Construction site

mar — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:16:20 +0000

Watercolor

mar — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:16:27 +0000

Rhythm

mar — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:37:30 +0000

This morning I am putting together a lecture on Rhythm and came across this set of audio clips of Sean Scully discussing his paintings. I’m also reading his book, Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistence Selected Writings. I love how he makes the case in there that rhythm itself is more universal than figuration. He talks about a student named Hedwig who has a tattoo of a bird on her arm which signifies her personal mythology of flying from Berlin. He points out that this is not decipherable to those who don’t know the story because in our society we don’t agree on anything (p.94). Then he discusses the painting, Precious, and his own mythology (involving a boat trip out of Ireland) behind encasing a little painting of stripes within a larger painting of stripes. “… I want mine to be more accessible than Hedwig’s tattoo. That’s nice if you know the story, but I’d like my work also to speak through the universal language of rhythm. Rhythm communicates in a primal way, directly through feeling.” (p.97)
Here is the audio from Hood Museum of Art where he discusses the boat story.

Drones

mar — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:14:56 +0000

A short from 2005 using sound from When Drones Leave the Hive by the San Francisco band, Judith and Holofernes.

Interview with Charles Ferguson

mar — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:48:15 +0000

MoveOn interview with Inside Job director.

Recycling

mar — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:09:31 +0000

Today I started recycling old work to build new stretchers. Some of it goes back to the 90′s. I’m painting smaller these days and simply acrylic on canvas. That old work was a wild ride, thanks in part to an undying fandom involving Robert Rauschenberg. I managed to salvage a second-hand yellow prom dress along with some old toy plates that had been glued on dry mud.

Yellow toy airplane

mar — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:53:10 +0000

I had a dream that my father had swallowed a plastic toy.