new work in two posts, pt.2

male and female

two new large-scale drawings I did in my backyard. (Sorry but the shadows in the yard made for lousy pictures.) I was playing with a mixture of ground charcoal, ink and water. They came out pretty decent, but there's a part of me that's moved on to other ideas. I might just keep doing more of these, but already I have an idea of what direction I want to go in with some oil paintings. It's hard to remember just to have fun with it, when you're still trying to figure out what "it" is.

also: chalk. and a dinky self-portrait.

new link

Just wanted to inform you that I added the website of Frank Relle to my links. Frank is a very nice guy who takes pictures of New Orleans and other such places. In the future, when people want to see what America looked like when there were no reality stars around, they will look for his work and go "Oh, they actually weren't all the same, were they?"

text collage

made on an antique Underwood typewriter, using phrases from texts by Ezra Pound, George Orwell, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and an acquaintance of Lord Byron

new work

These are drawings I did when I still had a studio. The imagery is based on graffiti and tags found in and around New Orleans after Katrina. This is the first time I started making work inspired by Katrina, but it's not really work about tragedy or loss, although that is a big part of it.
I came to the realization that abstraction and representation are two sides of the same coin, and that there are systems of communication (language, constellations, numbers, braille, etc.) which abstract an idea but also represent it. I got really into cognitive theory and linguistics for a while.

As for the mirror: If I am not just myself, and 1 + 1 also equals 1, and I am the universe, as you are the universe, then the reflection, which is not the universe, rather a metaphoric absence of the universe, is the absence of me, and the absence of you.

more college stuff

watercolors from sketchbook