The further an idea gets from its root source, the more apparent its core values become— but only if you’re selecting the very nucleus (nugget, if you will) does the idea grow rather than fragment. Moving lackadaisically through thought provides an adequate environment for the dissonant creation of un-matter, or thoughts-that-almost-were-but-weren’t. Collecting these fragments, shards and castoffs evokes the piles of non-ideas that get shed when a nucleus/nugget moves forward into its next permutation of existence, creating a composition of non-matter. Formally speaking, this composition is unremarkable. Conceptually, it is pointless (having no nucleus, it drifts…). Physically it has no apparent shape or function. But there it is, again, insistent that it was once at the center of ionic combustion— arresting your departure with slanted tangents, always partially attached (but mostly detached) from a reality that just seconds ago spun slightly out of orbit.
Aliens are not going to be impressed if we send them a number from quantum mechanics. That’s why we should send them an abstraction of human achievement (technologically produced video) combined with manipulated/appropriated imagery from outer space (what imagery from outer space *isn’t* manipulated/appropriated?) and art history (art historical education based on happenstance), combined with our favorite blind blues man’s distorted drawling (eye glasses from the future/without pretense). What isn’t there to understand??? The aliens will LOVE US.
I designed this shirt a while ago for the Jejune Institute, where I was working at the time. They didn’t print it because it had too many colors, obviously.
If you haven’t checked out the Games of Nonchalance, you really should. Take it from a girl who KNOWS… a recondite family awaits!
Jazzy guy’s got the blues.
Do you feel calm? I feel pretty calm.
Pattern, motion, depth, light, shadow, canvas, screen, reality, fabrication. That’s my current tag cloud for this new work.
I love the summer in Vermont, and I love riding trains. I made this while riding a train through Vermont in the summer. Holy blessed are the hours!
I got a projector from e-Bay over the winter because I wanted to start up again with my projection painting installations. For some reason I have not ended up doing this, mostly because I like to work large, and my apartment can’t really fit a large canvas… so I’ve been more into smaller scale stuff. I recently happened across this photo of a piece I was working on last year, called Devil’s Pitchfork. It made me want to rekindle my friendship with huge glowing art. Yes, indeed.
watercolor, gouache and pixel.
I have never considered myself an informed designer, i.e. somebody who has studied principles of design, and knows about certain visual phenomena that can inform the layout of information. I mostly think about design as an art student, or as a human most concerned with visual appeal, concept and originality. I’ve been experimenting as of late, using Adobe Illustrator to make some vector art/logos. Using Illustrator feels wrong to me, after so many years spent devoted solely to Photoshop (the software love of my life). I have always seen Illustrator as a cool-seeming person who I knew I might like if I got to know them… but my preoccupation with Photoshop kept me from wandering. In short, I’m a devoted P-shopper, and I don’t think that will ever change. BUT: Illustrator is fun, and I’m gonna have dinner with it tonight, and maybe catch a movie (wink).
Also, yeah, I’ve been working on some design for the band Dr. Dog… both for my job, and in the hopes of winning a CONTEST!!!
