Painting

Paintings are experienced in a variety of contexts. Sometimes they are intended to convey a topical social statement.
Sometimes they are orchestrated in a manner that allows for the pure experience of the forms involved.
Some of the processes used at ESP are described below.

The Special Relationship: in process

This is a highlight from a work in progress. It celebrates all the hard work B.O.'s administration has been putting into "cleaning up" the economy and other disasters. The plan is to have an interactive component, which is activated by a crank. This will mobilize an animation sequence.

The Special Relationship: in process

This is a highlight from a work in progress. It celebrates all the hard work B.O.'s administration has been putting into "cleaning up" the economy and other disasters. The plan is to have an interactive component, which is activated by a crank. This will mobilize an animation sequence.

Yes, the Kool-Aid guy is filled with "Oil" and it's spilling onto wall street...
... OH YEAH!

The Special Relationship: in process

This is a highlight from a work in progress. It celebrates all the hard work B.O.'s administration has been putting into "cleaning up" the economy and other disasters. The plan is to have an interactive component, which is activated by a crank. This will mobilize an animation sequence.

Poor Tony... He just wants his life back...

Stealing Color: Mixing

Here is a sample of some colors that have been mixed using this method. I had to get some airtight containers. I previously had some plastic cups. I mixed about 80 colors, but they all dried. The paint didn't reconstitute well, and so I had to throw them out. You might be able to see a test paper to the left, used during the mixing process.

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.

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.

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.