ex CHANGELING

now is titled "CELL CONVERSATION"...just broken up bits of information that get re-assembled into some other kind of entity. like some parts, not sure about the whole...but it is on its third leg. i like the details of this, which show the cadence of the mark making that occured, pencil and china marker moving through the paint at different speeds leaving remnants behind, recording the act? like the touch of someones fingers on your skin still felt decades later. imprint and fingerprints taking on tatoo like qualities, embedded in ones epidermis. layers of translucent memories a vessel stretching to contain the expansive life...stretch marks forming, moving and on the surface reflecting the tides...attraction menage a troi. moon sun earth dancing swinging pushing and pulling...moonlight filling the night sky, light trickling down through the russeled leaves pushing their way to the daytime sunlight.
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LIFE BOAT series

born out of all the rain/wetness that has been visiting us as of late...sloppy emotionalism splattered on the canvas. feeling like drawing more, use to do this on paper but taking it a bit larger and bringing it to the plaster on board. can see the roots of this piece in some of my paper work (ref: interior A/interior B/interior C/ interior D) which were done as sectional work as opposed to the plan like quality of my landscape investigations. the sectional interior work concentrates more on the lucid emotional body, the unspoken interior energy we all keep within our skin...life boats also refer back to an instructor i had in art school by the name of patricia renick (university of cincinnati) she investigated boats and i do believe called them life boats, which brings up duality of a vessel to hold(people)/embrace-[Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French embracer, from en- + brace:pair of arms]/include as opposed to keeping out (water)/omit/prevent/ostracize-[Etymology: Greek ostrakizein to banish by voting with potsherds, from ostrakon shell, potsherd]...funny, i would use potsherds/broken shells to describe the discombobulation of "cell conversation"

OSTRAKON
Main Entry: os·tra·con
Pronunciation: \ˈäs-trə-ˌkän\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural os·tra·ca \-trə-kə\
Etymology: Greek ostrakon potsherd, shell — more at oyster
Date: 1883
: a fragment (as of pottery) containing an inscription —usually used in plural

hmmm, so they would inscribe/write/record information on these sherds kind of like inscribing on as an act of painting/recording daily life...

it rained alot here in the pacific northwest...keep that in mind inregards to the subtitle.


LIFE BOAT 30x48
"my life boat is rudderless"

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this is a series of drawings i did about a year ago but seemed relevant in regards to the lifeboat series....

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additive/subtractive landscapes in constant motion, sometimes scale of time is so distorted the motion is so large, growth so big we are lost in it all. choices to acknowledge/remember/forget/erase...drawing on this premiss.

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changling

this transpired from the langley middle school art/creativity event that occurred a few weeks ago....set up a canvass and did some drawing and painting and let anyone else add to the piece. sat in my studio for a while and started working on it this weekend...something about change. ghandi said be the change you want the world to be, which is scary for many of us...cause sometimes it does not look like what we thought the change would look like when we began and we forget that the process/journey is the change and that it is organic and non linear when at its best, when change has a life of its own and we are able to let go and just be...ghandi experienceD this when as his ideas and changes took on a life of their own and india was not looking like he thought it might be. so this painting takes off and is what it is and will be something else after some time and alot of patience. maybe it is one of those works that will never be complete and will be in a constant state of flux, always changing and electronic images to record its journey.

THIS ONE AIN'T GONNA LAST MUCH LONGER....

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