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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

STOP DECORATING AND START MAKING ART aka. Holiday Update

"Stop decorating and starting making art."

The epiphany popped into my head whilst laying on my back, in the back, of Melissa Turners van, speeding North on I95, away from Miami and rocketing towards Savannah, Georgia. Full of Chipotle and a refreshing lime-topped Corona the sentence and the concept reverberated in my mind:

 STOP DECORATING
~                AND START                ~
MAKING ART



Could I say no to that?

No.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Squiggles and Cross

Dear Interwebz,


It seems as if work comes in flows. Research, then construction, research, then construction. This could also be seen as goofing-off then stressing out, goofing-off then stressing out. However you want to word it, I'm in the flurry of a stressing out/construction period right now and it feels mighty fine. 


This recent work has been about pain, and its striking beauty. There is a rapturous quality to pain, an assurance of reality that is rare to be found in the aloofness of chuckle. Its a strange loop we grow through; remembering how much we know, then being reminded of how little we actually believe.
I'm beginning to see life forming as a calcification; layers upon layers of blood sweat and tears produce a character, a friend, a lover.


I'm headed down to Miami tomorrow morning with my friend Mellisa. To quote her from her website, launchmeintospace.org... 
 "I am trading all of my belongings in a fundraiser as a way to drum up monetary support for an incredible 5 month art and urban planning collaboration opportunity with the city of Copenhagen, Denmark."

So were headed down there early in the AM in her van thats been painted by my neighbor Leonard Miller (a preeminent sign painter in the Savannah Garden), and I'm taking along my friend Stu, a buddy from Alaska who's been going to school in the States.

So that should be fun!
I'll let y'all know how it was. In the mean time enjoy these paintings. I just came up with a signature that I'm really diggin on, so I stamped it on everything I've got. It was liberating.

Also, check out the store. I'm in the process of pricing some more paintings and getting them ready for selling as well. If your interested, give me a shout.

Much Love...

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