Landscape

This process affords me the ability to work with a certain vocabulary of color harmonies, while being able to paint in a way that matches more closely, the way I draw.

This work reminds me of elements from a landscape.

2010 - Watercolor

Vacuous Fluff: Levity

Knowing how much of two colors you need in order to balance them is tricky. This is what Johannes Itten called "contrast of extension". It's particularly useful when working with complementary colors. If the violet was darker and brighter in this composition, there would have been more of a problem with balance. It seems as if these figures are floating on a landscape.

2010 - Watercolor

Vacuous Fluff: 2012

I am not sure why I am anticipating calling this work 2012. There are references to Mayan and Aztec carvings at the bottom of the image. Also hidden among the patterns, is an image of a death mask, which has an umbilical cord coming out of the side, with a fetus attached. I don't know where it came from, but you could say that at the end, at the precipice of a paradigm shift, there is always continuity. I can't explain the form that looks like an over-easy egg with a red yolk.

2010 - Watercolor

Vacuous Fluff: Language

This process affords the ability to choose colors and color groupings very deliberately. If I wanted to faithfully reproduce photographic images using this method, I probably could. What would be the point in that? Abstraction is focused on the interface between "reality" and interpretation.

2010 - Watercolor

Vacuous Fluff: Early Spring

These images might be preparatory for future giclee prints. At any rate, they are vacuous fluff images. I take this concept seriously. The term "vacuous fluff" is a hated concept in the arts, particularly in the west. But, unless we embrace vacuous fluff in our lives, we won't be able to handle it's counterpart; disjunctive mediation.

2010 - Watercolor

Disjunctive Mediation: Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman was an economist and leader of what was called the “New Chicago School” of economics. Recently, much talk has been made about “predatory lending” practices with regard to the housing market and the worldwide “economic crisis”. If you could extrapolate this phenomenon, and apply it to relationships between world economies during the 60’s through the 80’s, you would have a similar scenario. Milton Friedman’s ideas and strategies were at the core.

Economists emerging from the new Chicago school, found positions “helping” economically depressed societies to find their way out of the economic hardships they were facing. These were countries like Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, Poland and so on.

These wall murals are temporary, and are to be considered as in the context of a performance. They are whitewashed after exhibition, implying a possible "whitewashing" of real intellectual or political discourse in our culture.

from blog: Superfluous and Critical Texts

Painted directly on wall for the exhibition, "G-Spot" - 2009

Disjunctive Mediation: Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman was an economist and leader of what was called the “New Chicago School” of economics. Recently, much talk has been made about “predatory lending” practices with regard to the housing market and the worldwide “economic crisis”. If you could extrapolate this phenomenon, and apply it to relationships between world economies during the 60’s through the 80’s, you would have a similar scenario. Milton Friedman’s ideas and strategies were at the core.

Economists emerging from the new Chicago school, found positions “helping” economically depressed societies to find their way out of the economic hardships they were facing. These were countries like Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, Poland and so on.

These wall murals are temporary, and are to be considered as in the context of a performance. They are whitewashed after exhibition, implying a possible "whitewashing" of real intellectual or political discourse in our culture.

from blog: Superfluous and Critical Texts

Painted directly on wall for the exhibition, "G-Spot" - 2009

Disjunctive Mediation: Pravda

Anna Politkavskaya was reporting on Russia's military presence in Chechnya. She was sharply critical of Putin's actions there, and it was thought that her assassination was a birthday present to him.

These wall murals are temporary, and are to be considered as in the context of a performance. They are whitewashed after exhibition, implying a possible "whitewashing" of real intellectual or political discourse in our culture.

Painted directly on wall for the exhibition, "Yes. Thank You." - 2009

Disjunctive Mediation: Thug Life

This image uses an ambigram.

The text "Thug Life" reads the same direction when rotated 180 degrees.

These wall murals are temporary, and are to be considered as in the context of a performance. They are whitewashed after exhibition, implying a possible "whitewashing" of real intellectual or political discourse in our culture.

Painted directly on wall for the exhibition, "Yes. Thank You." - 2009

Disjunctive Mediation: Words of the Profits

Included in this painting/installation are two chalkboards, positioned beneath the word "blog:". I would enter the gallery after operating hours and paint on the wall, statements the viewer/user would write on these boards. Some of the comments related closely to relevant political events, rumors, gossip or vulgarities. My actions were reflective of those of mass media communications.

Whatever someone wrote on the board, I would incorporate into the written words on the wall space. The boards were later erased, so someone else could write on them.

Painted directly on wall for the exhibition, "Yes. Thank You." - 2009

Disjunctive Mediation: Words of the Profits

A likeness, which is based on a maniacal smile I see every day. This is usually the face seen on someone who has been brainwashed, or is a member of a cult. The cult could be a local church group, the used car sales lot, or the PTA.

These wall murals are temporary, and are to be considered as in the context of a performance. They are whitewashed after exhibition, implying a possible "whitewashing" of real intellectual or political discourse in our culture.

Painted directly on wall for the exhibition, "Yes. Thank You." - 2009

Disjunctive Mediation: Words of the Profits

The script on the wall is PHP, which is one of the script languages used to develop online communication. Languages like this enable social utilities to function. Therefore, I wrote this on the wall, using a loose version of a calligraphic typeface, indicating that blind obedience to electronic communications has become some kind of edict we all must obey. We often see scripts like this, written as epitaphs on buildings or on gravestones. There is a piece of conduit that looks like it's plugged into the maniac's head.

Among the server-side script is written, some other commentary. This commentary is derived from the kind of narrative, typically found online, that of paranoia, narcissism, obsession and fleeting worries. Many of the statements in scripting languages sound like barking orders, particularly "submit!" At this time, unemployment in the United States was (according to Government Statistics) at 10%. Steve Job's had some spleen infection or something, and so that was a big story. The news commentators seemed to be playing on the paranoia of the possibility of a life without "Jobs". It's a bad pun, but some people really care way too much about electronic doo-dads.

These wall murals are temporary, and are to be considered as in the context of a performance. They are whitewashed after exhibition, implying a possible "whitewashing" of real intellectual or political discourse in our culture.

Painted directly on wall for the exhibition, "Yes. Thank You." - 2009