I am. I think. I will.

This was part of a highschool printmaking assignment where were supposed to illustrate part of a book. I being the strange person I am chose Anthem by Ayn Rand, illustrating the end where he discovers the word 'I'. I may or may not have won a highschool award thingy for this one either that or it was the sepia inked edition of this.

Part of my AP Concentration

The 'ad' for my AP art class' show.

'Divine Wind' one of the collage pieces from my concentration

From what I can remember I think my concentration had to do with people's beliefs. Strong beliefs usually resulting in death. I mostly focused on cults or religious groups...I don't think that it was very good but I decided not to draw any part of it until I was forced to...

There is a lot of Grey in Black and White

Here's some old stuff from highschool. This was a corner of an 18x24 collage I did. Why was 18x24 so important?

Permitted to Assume a Position: The Handbook

This was my book midterm final that I never put up. I made the 'paper' out of thread with pva glue and the words and pictures are from a first aid handbook. There are 4 pages on each side and each one moves...really...the pages are stable...really. People were scared to look through it. The piece has issues; that there is no lightbulb for the dentist lightbox, people don't want to touch it, it's just a weird piece. But I like the idea of thread paper so I will need to figure out a different system for pages...

One of Many

I love stamps. I have questions. Help.

Sewing Cards

This was a total rush job trying to scan everything I could find for a review...but here are the rest of the cards I sewed for my bookmaking class. The spacing is huge for some reason. Anyway this just means that I need to learn how to make lights so I can backlight all my pieces properly...another project another project...

Lauren Kalman

It's so disgusting but...lovelove. These are some pieces from Lauren Kalman's Hard Wear series. I normally don't like to read what artist's have to say about their work usually because it's some enlightened transcendentalist metaphysical content based thing that I can't connect back to the piece itself but I liked this part of what she had to say about these pieces: 

 "In contrast, I present gold jewelry as a vehicle to amplify taboo aspects of the body. I fabricate gold adornment to highlight where the interior body transgresses its boundaries making organs, imperfections and diseases visible. The form of the adornment often reflects malignant excrescences, such as rupturing membranes or cancerous growths. These gleaming outgrowths cause bodily residues to be shed as they spread orifices and tear skin. When the beauty of gold is alloyed with the seeping body the objects become both intriguing and repulsive."