Deconstruction

The second print below came from the remnants of the top piece..........I think you can see how the forms repeat after being deconstructed a bit.......thought this was kind of interesting......

10,000!

Wow.......this blog passed 10,000 views today..........started it in November of 2012.........wow!

Thanks to everyone who is stopping here to check out what is going on.........I am truly inspired to keep going!

Just thought I would put up a grid of the past few days of images.......

backlog...........

August 29 print.......the one on the left was the first state....the second was 2 additional layers..........the arc and the yellow layer last......

Yesterdays print........just realized I had not posted this...........

These are 2 acrylic paintings I did at Live Art Fusion in Bellmore on the night of Tuesday the 27th......I am going to intermix the prints with these small paintings as a transition to painting each day.......
On September 4th I will be painting live at Webster Hall as part of their QAS event and the reception for the Governors Island art fair will be Septermber 8th........

Kickstarter.

Thinking of setting up a Kickstarter to raise some funds to purchase materials so I can keep printing.  I was thinking of $100 to raise around $2000 to buy paper and inks.........then give each donor a print........what do you think?

pulse..........

no title..........

Face Dances

TGIF......

Back to the install today........I am going to try to get the room done.......or at least close.....tomorrow I am showing outdoors in Huntington in the afternoon.
I will show small prints and some t-shirts........maybe do a print demo....

I did this print around 1am last night.....this one is 2 layers........thought the first run looked a bit light, sometimes the ink dries, maybe not enough base to start, and I reroll just with the ink left on the plate.  Here I added the yellow background color and wiped out all the other areas of the subject.....

Ursa Major........

Thinking of the night sky.........and a teddy bear.........came up with Ursa Major......light.

Thinking of why we seem to becoming a police state in the US.....as Daniel Ellsberg pointed out.....(the guy who released the pentagon papers)........so if the NSA has us pinned down
there isn't much we can do......even including these thoughts......if someone thinks this is subversive and has power.........getting a bit paranoid I have to tell you.

So anyway, why would this event, personal spying, grow around the world?  My thoughts are that we are preparing for a future with limited natural resources, massive overpopulation, ecological calamaties which have extreme effect on the population......so the natural confluence would create a strong central government which could control the eventual separation of classes.

Just saying.........

Axis

Axis

Found a new passion
Amongst the ruins of a decaying state of mind
Simplification of remorse into intuitive reconcilliation
Paranoid delusions just in case.

Whether or not this axis of neutrality
Can overwhelm the inconsistencies inherent in any manifestation
Of what I can realistically expect
 From diminished expectations

Following the commands the commander retreats
To his family on the coast of the shimmering sea
Considering his options
Perhaps this is best

The wheel turns without him, he sees it pass by
Flash of consideration
Eyes shut to the sounds of the future
Held there by a hand not his own

Sancho

So what would a modern Don Quixote look like........
I would guess he would become an American Cowboy carrying a 6 shooter..........
instead of a windmill he would go up against an oil pipeline in the middle of nowhere.......
He would wind up in Los Angeles......and meet a porn star named Dull "Sin" Eya, who would say she was anything but Dull.
I think he would wind up in Peru taking Ayawaska and reaching enlightenment in my story....always looking for the happy ending......

Oz

Today's print, August 19th, 2013

Perhaps this is OZ, at the end of the yellow brick road.........not sure.......

This is yesterdays print.......I did not get to post it........

I had a cool idea for the art cave........I would block out all the light from the windows and the guests would be given LED candles to walk around the space.......illuminate only small areas at a time.......I am not sure I will have the time to finish this work.......this is the thing I am currently doing on Governors Island in NYC.

Grace

Following your heart till the end
Sincere apology corrects

Amazing Grace speeds away into the distance
Soft shadows revealing past indescressions

Solitude stands alone
As a compliment to foreshadowed conclusions

When the curtain falls
The audience is slient

People walk away from trouble, don't you know
Red velvet seats, house lights down........

Phoenix

Can we fix the past?  Sometimes memories of things I screwed up come flooding back......either through a dream or just a passing thought.  The feeling of sadness accompanies this for sure.  Regret, a hope for a different path, a hope that my transgressions did not hurt the other parties.....

I guess this piece makes me think of the Phoenix rising from the ashes.........we cannot change the past, but can only learn, be reborn into a better person, and move on from there.......

Post Mortum.

When I die.

There was once a character out of character
On the stage everyone was confused.

Is this the character in the play or someone else?
Are we in the right place?

The other actors tried to stay in character but were unsure how to
proceed.

So someone in the audience screamed
She is dead!

Everyone turned to see what happened,
the audience member fainted on cue.

Chaos was everywhere.......except for the woman who died
The actor out of character

And a few stage hands who found the whole thing somewhat humorous
The critic was busy writing his own obituary.

So the story goes, and if this is true
I want to go out this way

Very dramatic I think
Something to consider anyway..........

Morphing mediums.

So it turns out I have been doing these prints since April 2012........I know this now as I have been cataloging the work for the past year......it is really interesting for me to see the evolution of this idea to where it is now.....

I am thinking of morphing this into an acrylic painting each day......see how that works and how the imagery will change with another medium..

New week........

I have just about completed organizing the images from the last year of monoprints.........man there have been a lot of changes over these past months.  I have learned a lot about color and movement.......and a commitment to creating art with discipline.

Back to the Governors Island project this week.........that show is coming up and now it is the push to finish those pieces.........then start looking for the next opportunity......maybe another residency.........

the illusionist.........

Waters rise and cover a small town.  Hardly anyone notices as I slip away with the teapot left on a small riser meant to preserve the opportunities of future generations.
Stop.
Do you hear the water rushing over all of these dreams?
Could we have stopped this?

I see all of this on television.  The temperature is perfect.  My food is perfect.  The air smells of Jasmine. 

Sometimes you just have to go with what we call "the flow".  The water covered everything, all these peoples lives changed forever.  I feel for them, sure I do, but what can I do.

Tomorrow will be another day.

Current!

Two paintings I did last night at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn as part of the Oxheart Event called Currents.......really great event of art, music, dance, and mime and sideshow entertainers......and really great cupcakes........

Today's print.... I spent the last week organizing all the images into each month and date.....there are still about 40 or so orphans but I am working on this.......now I can get the e-commerce site set up and have access to the images when I need to! 

Compliments

Painting live tonight at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn.........
https://www.facebook.com/oxheartnyc
is the link to the event.......

Todays print is inspired by a conversation I had with my friend Andrea about Blue, Orange, and White........thought I would give it a try. 

OXHEART tomorrow night........

I will be painting "live" at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn tomorrow evening as part of an event sponsored by OXHEART........
https://www.facebook.com/oxheartnyc
is the link on facebook............

Please stop by and say hello...........lots of music and art and good people............

Getting organized......

Spent a good part of yesterday going through all the prints and organizing them by when they were created......dimensions......each set will go into a separate box so that I can find stuff when I need it!  Feel the pull to start painting again.......

On Friday I will be painting at 3rd Ward.......I will post details this week.........

one idea, two solutions.

These 2 prints were based on the lines of the first image (which is the one at right)......I had planned to overprint this first image, but thought that what I saw on the plexi would stand on its own......therefore the second image.

Then.........I was not happy with either image and started overprinting each one on its own...two very different results with the same framework..........

Siblings.......

Yesterday I was watching a family of kids and how sibling rivalry works just a bit......maybe that stuck with me on today's print........

This is the ongoing print on Governors Island... I have an idea of extending the print around the whole room and the final exhibition will be lit by a simple light source to make it look like the viewer is in a cave......not much time to get this done......

Mirror Images

Two prints 22x 30.......thought of a mirror image of each other........

I will be on Governors Island tomorrow with an open studio from 11 to 5......please stop by and say hello if you like.