A few more things about me, primarily in photographic form...
1. This is my self, posing with a camera in my right hand, the verdant living room wall behind me and a bunch of framed Mike Brousseau drawings that fell off the wall stacked in the lower left. Also my glasses are on my head which means that I spent the afternoon making my once-perfect vision worse, forgetting that I've needed glasses ever since I turned 30. Below that is a word painting I recently didn't quite finish.
2. And one of my finished paintings. The owl and the word are separate pieces. They don't always go together. I have this idea that my paintings should be mixed and matched like whatever it is that people mix and match. That the components could theoretically be rearranged to create different installed effects. The pieces below are about 5 feet by 4 feet in real-ish life.
3. Today I ran into a sunflower with my head and arm while biking really fast near Blackstone Boulevard. It almost knocked me off my bike and didn't feel anything like a flower.
4.Here is my studio. It is in disarray, but the feeling of complete seasickness it inspires is due largely to the wonderful, overwhelming wall mural created by Josh Kretzmann.
5. Here's a large painting that I can't finish. It's 4 feet wide by 6 feet tall. I'm happy with the wing in the upper section (and with the fact that it's 4 feet wide by 6 feet tall), but the central bird is infuratingly stagnant and the bottom is a little on the disasterous side. This posting is a not-at-all-veiled cry for help... ideas? The words below the painting reflect my recently-conceived hunch that terms from quantum math and logic could, in addition to offering cool letterforms, have something to do with birds. If and only if. Set theory. So forth. I haven't prooved this hunch in any meaningful way but I have, hunching and impulsive, painted several mathematical terms precariously close to birds. Because I can.
6. And a blurry photo of another piece I'm working on. A 4'x6' of some sort of South American hummingbird. I've been looking for references of birds in interesting, agressive, dramatic or frenetic motion. Diving. Eating strange fruit messily. Carrying things. I'd like some input on this painting too... it's at risk of becoming static like the one above and no amount of quantum math, then, will be able to save it. In this photo you can also see my stool. It's covered in paint. It's not for sitting.
7. The name of my blog comes from an interview with Steven Millhauser, an author whose books I've never read, in Bomb magazine. This is the actual quote, which I think was about fiction but can happily be pulled out of context and applied to life, dinner or the kestral that's coming in for the kill from behind your left shoulder:
"...I want it to exhilarate me, to unbind my eyes, to murder and resurrect me, to harm me in some fruitful way..."
8. Here is something that happened once.
His says "I'm against it", and everyone knows I'm for it.
There is plenty of harm in the world (and even my mouth). Now, onwards, towards the fruit.
1. This is my self, posing with a camera in my right hand, the verdant living room wall behind me and a bunch of framed Mike Brousseau drawings that fell off the wall stacked in the lower left. Also my glasses are on my head which means that I spent the afternoon making my once-perfect vision worse, forgetting that I've needed glasses ever since I turned 30. Below that is a word painting I recently didn't quite finish.
2. And one of my finished paintings. The owl and the word are separate pieces. They don't always go together. I have this idea that my paintings should be mixed and matched like whatever it is that people mix and match. That the components could theoretically be rearranged to create different installed effects. The pieces below are about 5 feet by 4 feet in real-ish life.
3. Today I ran into a sunflower with my head and arm while biking really fast near Blackstone Boulevard. It almost knocked me off my bike and didn't feel anything like a flower.
4.Here is my studio. It is in disarray, but the feeling of complete seasickness it inspires is due largely to the wonderful, overwhelming wall mural created by Josh Kretzmann.
5. Here's a large painting that I can't finish. It's 4 feet wide by 6 feet tall. I'm happy with the wing in the upper section (and with the fact that it's 4 feet wide by 6 feet tall), but the central bird is infuratingly stagnant and the bottom is a little on the disasterous side. This posting is a not-at-all-veiled cry for help... ideas? The words below the painting reflect my recently-conceived hunch that terms from quantum math and logic could, in addition to offering cool letterforms, have something to do with birds. If and only if. Set theory. So forth. I haven't prooved this hunch in any meaningful way but I have, hunching and impulsive, painted several mathematical terms precariously close to birds. Because I can.
6. And a blurry photo of another piece I'm working on. A 4'x6' of some sort of South American hummingbird. I've been looking for references of birds in interesting, agressive, dramatic or frenetic motion. Diving. Eating strange fruit messily. Carrying things. I'd like some input on this painting too... it's at risk of becoming static like the one above and no amount of quantum math, then, will be able to save it. In this photo you can also see my stool. It's covered in paint. It's not for sitting.
7. The name of my blog comes from an interview with Steven Millhauser, an author whose books I've never read, in Bomb magazine. This is the actual quote, which I think was about fiction but can happily be pulled out of context and applied to life, dinner or the kestral that's coming in for the kill from behind your left shoulder:
"...I want it to exhilarate me, to unbind my eyes, to murder and resurrect me, to harm me in some fruitful way..."
8. Here is something that happened once.
His says "I'm against it", and everyone knows I'm for it.
There is plenty of harm in the world (and even my mouth). Now, onwards, towards the fruit.
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