| 2005 and prior |
| my artwork |
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| These were good years for my art, and I made some wonderful work. Each year, to the chagrin of my mentor and dear friend, I would have a burning of artwork to release both me and it to the Universe. I did not document my work as well as I should, and I lost much. But here is what I have to offer. |
| I did this piece in 2003. Homage to Grandma, The Hooker of East Pepperrell honors the efforts that my grandma put into the crafts she gifted to us for the holidays. Each year as a child, I dreaded opening the box packed with her crafts that she sent to us because what child cares about such things. The image is loosely adopted from a Chinese hanging scroll (Click here to read more about the why I chose to do this image and to see how I did so.). The piece is 9'x5', which is quite large and took some time to make. It is cut yarn on canvas and finished with a felt backing. price $1,300 |
| Absolom's Tomb was done in 1999, I believe. It is 4'x6', and it is done in oxidation and metal on wood. I like this piece because of its simplicity, even though it is quite complicated. I would like to think that Barnett Newman would appreciate it. The piece lives with my dear friend and mentor, Peter Stilton. |
| This is my zoetrope, which was a working moving-picture machine. I built it with my dad because I could not figure out the angles. I wanted the shape to be reminiscent of a water tower, and I burned images into the wood. The piece took two people to operate. The bearing assembly was made of marbles, which gave off the best sounds. |
| Self Portrait With Soldier's Medals won first place at a show where rejected art from another show went. This was a great piece. I made the stains with oil paint. I attached metal and paper. And there is rust and oxidation. The piece is about 48"x30". |
| I did this drawing in 2005 when I was preparing my lesson for perspective. Like other artists, I wanted to play with the "space" of the picture plane. I used pencil, ink, and collage to finish the drawing, which is roughly 20"x30". The convolution of space is very exciting to me and my work. price $700 framed |
| Sometimes it is important for me to work out the compositional issues in smaller drawings before I start a larger or more complicated version. This is because I like to have boundaries that I will not go out of no matter how much I let loose within them. The above drawing was my first conception of the piece. Below I am working on the piece in my studio. |
| I did many drawings like this, but I do not know where most of them went. I feel a pull to work again with rust and oxidation. |
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| These were the preparatory drawings for Absolom's Tomb. The first drawing is out of my sketchbook, and it was the impetus for the piece. The charcoal drawing is about 22"x30"; I did it to work out the composition. The third drawing is about 8"x11", and this was to work out the color composition. Each of the drawings helped to make the large one successful. |
| The Golden Calf was done in 1999. It is 4'x6', and it is done in acrylic, oxidation, found materials, and metal on wood. |
| All of My Lovers are Colored is ink, acrylic, and charcoal on wood. The piece is 4'x4'. This gooey piece was all about love and sex. At the time, I was very free with the exploration of both my artwork and my physical self. Some people thought it was offensive and others liked it. I like it. |
| These are three in a series of many where I was experimenting with rust and oxidation, line, form, composition, and materials. I had fun making these drawings, and some of them turned out to be quite remarkable. I can feel pull towards working in this way again, and when I have the space and materials I will. |
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