mother of dragons-kes

question: what can be made? answer: what ever can be imagined.

this is an industrial printer. it lives at work. not much love for it.

this is what the printer looks like inside. notice the black ribbon waste top center. 

after ink is used once, it rolls up onto the top waste spool.

this is what happens when the artist defiantly gets 'cooking' and 

refuses to put trash in a landfill just once.

egg recipe:

• [1] industrial waste ribbon-wound on itself like a baseball core
• add scotch tape reinforcement
• coat in matte medium
• embellish with glue gun
• apply acrylic sealer
• spraypaint

nest recipe:

• [2] styrofoam plates, torn, previously used as painting palletes
• torn pieces of multilingual handwritten letters & songs on paper
• rose petals
• matte medium
• apply acrylic sealer
• spraypaint

assembly: 

to taste

signs of life

mixed media sculpture assembly, 2015

Work in process - Kimono (az)

'Kimono' was inspired by 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. 

I had forgotten about this until I went through my computer files. My creation is hardly accurate and unfinished. 

 I  used pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolor, and black pen on sketch paper. I also used workable fixative which is not so workable with black pen but I am hoping to complete this.

Components and Composing (SKF)

Greetings Fellow Creatives!

As you can see, I went to THE Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday to view the Dutch Masters. While I was strolling through the galleries, I observed a visual thread that seemed to originate in the paintings of Vermeer and de Hooch and was later reinvented in the works of Piet Mondrian.
This way of abstracting structure is very much operating in my own work. If you look at the painting to the left, "The Astronomer" by Johannes Vermeer, the composition shows large almost geometric shapes made by the chair, the back wall, back cabinet and the rectangular painting which visually hems our astronomer into place. He has a gridded window onto the world and by touching a globe, through the arrangement of diminishing puzzle pieces  we can visually feel the acceleration of his mind imaging enormous spaces. beyond his cramped interior.

In this painting, "Two Women Beside a Linen Chest with a Child" by Pieter de Hooch, the interior is neatly organized into sensible grids that relate in layers as you move through the space towards the back room. Notice the small patch of  blue sky in the middle of the painting. I am reminded of virtual landscapes of the online games which seem to employ similar compositions.
Compare the two styles below, de Hooch on the left and Mondrian on the right. All of these paintings organized the space by the mapping and the measurement of portions in relation to the whole. The architectural designs of  Theo Van Doesburg, founder of the De Stijil movement demonstrates how this way of  abstractly composing can create Modern Architecture. The fitting together of bits like the pixels in a digital photograph started with this idea of components. Now we find it difficult to see in any other way and I think it started in the small quiet interior paintings from a nation that once ruled the oceans from their tiny little row houses.

 So the nature of how you divide up the whole becomes an understanding of  inherent structures. These constructs exist at many layers with the human mind jumbling the pieces and reassembling them over and over in new ways.
 Each time the tangram is put together, new relationships are seen. We find pleasure in making new files in our imaginations to view the whole in a different light.  As fresh images inspire new harmonies, there is a never ending supply of wonder to fuel the artistic heart.
At every scale no piece is expendable and all parts are inseparable from one another and the Whole. For me observing the infinite flux of these patterns is a doorway to the presence of the Ineffable and a modern take on what we can't know but it has never stopped us from trying.