Stop Motion

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5nZKB7/butterr.com/video/mind-blowing-painting-skills/

While stumbling I came across this. It is a very well made stop action film about painting. The was he combines himself into the paintings and the bubbles is ingenious. Truly blurring the lines between sculpture, painting, and even digital media. Found it interesting and worth sharing.

Work in Progress

I chose a suburban scene in isometric perspective because I really wanted to emphasize the repetition and conformity of a suburban landscape. But when you get close the way it is draw each house is in it's own way different just like people. It's designed as a maze to symbolize the maze we travel though life. My work is not normally this heavily symbolistic, but I'me pleased with how it has been working out.

Chuck Close

This particular Chuck Close self portrait has taught me a lot about how art can be sensual without being sexual. This image has not erotic and does not have out right sexual content, but yet it's extremely sensual. The paint the attention to detail the cigarette all come together an create a very sensual image with out being sexual. And I think that can teach any artist a great deal about the importance of thinking through any and all implications of their work, and what they want to convey.

We Live in Public

        I just finished watching "We Live in Public", an insane documentary that sort of puts things in perspective. This insane technological master mind puts himself and other people through pretty much a psychological living hell. It takes the concept of "big brother is watching" to a whole new level. Devaluing genuine human relationship, setting a tragic scene of what the internet is doing to society, and giving you a glimpse into the human psyche. A internet mogul million spends his entire fortune, and ends up in well I won't say so not to ruin the surprise....
         .... Josh Harris will really make you think twice before you turn that video camera on, and let people into your room. Definitely worth watching.

Destruction

This six part series is based off a still life that I had done. As a part of class I participated in a program called back water clean up. As a class we went out and cleaned up the Back River of Essex. While we were cleaning I found three of the pieces of plywood I used as canvas. They where covered in muck and rotted out, and I found them inspiring. I love the thought of using found objects in my work. So i set out to find three more, and I didn't have to look any farther than my own backyard. The woods behind my house was littered with abandoned plywood providing ample canvas. After I rinsed and primed them each piece was painted with a different repetitive shape found in the still life. Once the paint had dried I took a electric hand sander and really roughed up each board. I wanted it to feel as if they where found this way like I had done nothing to them. Like they where a part if something greater that had broken off.  

Hustler

This oyster piece is my first clay sculpture attempt. It's clay with a dark stain and white glaze. The idea behind the oyster was to make a "toy" that shows your story. The story behind the oyster is that when I was younger, much younger than you are supposed to be to eat oysters, my father fed them to my sister and I by the bucket. We loved them, but no one believed we did. So when I used to go to family/friends parties I hustled adults out of their money by betting them that I would eat them. This oyster symbolizes those experiences and probably afforded me a couple of actual toys!