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Week twenty-five, November 30, 2008
original 8 1/2 x 11",
A couple of things occurred to me as I was working on this piece. One was that I was getting too comfortable with design elements that keep manifesting. Hmm, getting bored, making quick, rather than considered design decisions. The other, is my ongoing fascination with the connection between technology and the body; the whole idea of body image. | | Offering
Week twenty-six, December 7, 2008
original 8 1/2 x 11",
Wow! I'm half way through this project. | | The Efficacy of Prayer
Week twenty-seven December 27, 2008
original 8 1/2 x 11",
It is really a shame, a crime even, when real life interferes with art. Like most artists i have, not only a full time job, but a part time teaching job as well. Because of all the bad economic shit going down, my full time job as an assistant manger with a very large retail chain has become more and more demanding. My store manager was fired on September 12th of 2008. She has yet to be replaced. All of you who work retail can understand that this is very good for the bottom line of the corporation, but very bad for the lives of the people still working for the store. Yea, ya, really thats my excuse and i'm sticking to it. Christmas, of course i had no time to make art. Well, it's an excuse, sort of. | |  | |  | |  | Bathers in Lotus Land
Week twenty-eight, January 4, 2009
original 8 1/2 x 11",
Back on track, more or less. I certainly have a lot more time to make art than i have had in the past nine weeks. The January low point of sales, combined with classes not starting for another 4 weeks leaves me with plenty of art time on my hands. I actually started a new project today, as if i did not have enough to keep me out of trouble. | | Which Came First...the Broken World
Week twenty-nine, January 8, 2009
original 8 1/2 x 11",
International news of the past few weeks has just been to depressing for words. I was paging through a June 1954 copy of The Progressive Farmer, which is where the image of the world as a broken egg came from: that coupled with reports on NPR about the Gaza bombings was the inspiration for this piece. We all need a homeland. | | Devilishly Delicious
Week thirty, January 16, 2009
original 8 1/2 x 11",
Once again the Progressive Farmer of 1954 yields up imagery. What was some advertising agency thinking to label an aid to relieve constipation 666? I can not wrap my mind around the concept! Constipation is the devil's work? Lets not go there. Anyway it all seemed to come together in a rather twisted way. The perfect housewife, removing a frozen cake from her new labor saving device, the upright freezer... | |  | |  | |  | Where We Belong
Week thirty-one, January 24, 2009
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Once again the Progressive Farmer of 1954 yields up imagery. I have to admit that advertising imagery from the 50's and 60's appeals to me. I am after all a child of the 60's. Who would have thought that i would develop a fondness for all the stuff of my childhood that i found tacky at the time. Advertising, media in general is such a powerful force in our society. Telling us that we need to look thinner, look younger, do this, do that and you will be loved, cherished, put on a pedestal; where we belong. | | Baby X Reaches Out
Week thirty-two, February 4, 2009
original 8 1/2 x 11"
Yup, another donation to the cause from the Progressive Farmer. I'm not so much dealing with advertising imagery in this one, as the whole genre of bad b science-fiction movies. Good old baby x, out to change the world, one way or the other. That would be us, you know. | | Who's Your Daddy?
Week thirty-three, February 19, 2009
original 8 1/2 x 11"
Hmmm, we have been repulsed and fasciniated in the last decade or so by the spectre of genetic maniulation. This is not a new problem that we are dealing with, rather something that has in essence been with us since Darwin and Mendel. I find the ways our mind brings hidden things to the surface brillant. Where from the imagery of Baby X and Who's Your Daddy? I listen to a lot of NPR. Darwin, and his 200th birthday has been in the forefront of the news. What can i say? | |  | |  | |  | My Heart's Ease
Week thirty-four, February 25, 2009
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Week thirty-five, March 11, 2009
original 8 1/2 x 11"
We all have secrets. We all look out at the world and wonder if like Hester Pyrnne, we carry the symbol, the sign of our secret shame on our breast, or branded on our forehead for all the world to see. We all hide things, most especially from ourselves. | | Gift for the Man
Week thirty-six, March 19, 2009
original 8 1/2 x 11"
Unlike many of the recent collages in this series i struggled with this one. Not only did the image prove elusive, the title did as well. I am committed to the idea of narrative in my work. Often a title will spring to mind way before i finish the image. This of course drives all the choices i make after the words burn themselves into my brain | |
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