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Category Archives: Older work

Giants Among Us

Sunday, January 31, 2010

New York City is the capital of the advertising business in North America so it is to be expected that commercial imagery is plastered everywhere you look.  The whole city has attention deficit disorder and all kinds of bids for attention have to be extravagant to be noticed at all.  Some of the faces and [...]

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Textural Bodypaint

Friday, January 15, 2010

Looking through my personal library this week, I came across an old book called “Design by Accident” by James F. O’Brien.  It’s full of ways to incorporate chance and natural phenomena into visual arts and crafts.  Just the Table of Contents makes me feel inspired, so I’ll share it here:
Tree Forms:  trunks and branches formed [...]

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B-Sides

Thursday, January 7, 2010

The front of the body has most of the major focal points, so we tend to think of the back as secondary and less interesting.  We tend to want to face others, so the back of the body is unseen, like the far side of the moon.  Here’s a selection of my drawings of nude [...]

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Release

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The tradition of the wild party for New Years probably has something to do with the idea of catharsis, an explosive releasing of pent-up emotion through acting out.  We want to exhaust the frustration, regrets and resentments of the ending year by burning off the lingering energy to awaken to a fresh new day.  Of [...]

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Snow in the City

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Last weekend the Eastern U.S. had its first major snowfall of the season, immediately preceding the Winter Solstice.  Around this time of year our culture ritually celebrates the White Christmas and the Winter Wonderland, Jack Frost and Frosty the Snowman, calling up nostalgic images of horse-drawn sleigh rides and cozy houses among rolling hills of [...]

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