This piece is 5″ X 7″ in mixed media on paper. I would love to have made these 30 or so paintings in 5 feet X 7 feet. Large paintings do make an impact. Especially when they are larger than the person viewing it, it makes them look up and around far more I have noticed in shows. Maybe large prints on canvas would work, but they are expensive to create. Or a 72″ monitor positioned in your living room to show every work of art you have collected. The most expensive way to show art.
I have repainted this image a few times, 5 I think. I have one here in my studio. I will probably paint it again.
‘M-16’, acrylic on paper. 2014. I usually get carried away in my head when I like the image. I can use it then as an icon to represent something else. In this case war. I wonder if its related to the repetitive thinking I have, often. Some thank me for recognizing their value defending us, others see it as something far more troubling. The militarization of everything.
Haunted by Orwell.
This is a digital version I have played with. I would like to get more 3d into the image. When I make this one again I will use plaster instead of paint. Build it onto a sheet of plywood.
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Broken Symmetry in progress, 59″ X 59″, acrylic on canvas.
There are a few weeks left until the delivery days for the show on February 15th, 2019.
This strange idea came to me recently.
While I have been preparing for an upcoming show.
The show is concerning the order and disorder of mental health.
My condition is bi-polar, but I prefer to say I am bi-polar.
This work is all entirely new long after the themes of the show and the work have been decided. The work keeps happening, it keeps changing too. We live in a change machine. Its the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy will always increase
‘Misery’, 9″ X 12″, acrylic on canvas, 2011.
One of the first sketches for a large canvas continuing the theme of ‘Greed, Hunger and Misery’ that I have been working on since 1993.
‘Cavewall: Hunters’, 10″ X 24″, gypsum and acrylic on pressboard.
‘Cave Nine’, 20″ X 30″, gypsum and acrylic on panel.
‘Neolithic Horse’, 30″ X 36″, gypsum, cotton, paper and acrylic on masonite.
‘Neolithic Horses’, 16″ X 20″, gypsum and acrylic on canvas panel.
‘How to catch an Ibex’, 11″ X 14″, gypsum and acrylic on canvas.
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