Fire! (to keep you warm)

I was invited by the directors of the Parlour Room Gallery in Puyallup, WA to make a one night installation in their fireplace.

I put this:
in here:
and it played this audio bonsai.

Unifying Themes; Spencer Moody collaboration

A collaborative sound Bonsai between myself and Mr. Spencer Moody (murder city devils, triumph of lethargy, dead low tide...) This work will be part of a larger installation at a later date but I thought I would share it with you. It is an edit of the entire "Unifying Themes" album by the legendary hardcore band "Botch". A minus project where all sounds but single instruments, dramatic pauses or vocal were removed reducing the hour long "mathcore" album down to what is heard here.

Truth

Plugging away here at the James Washington Foundation. I am the artist in residence at this time. The following sculpture was generated/ruminated/meditated from the word "truth" as written by Mr. Washington's hand. This note was found on a scrap enclosed in a book belonging to the library here.


"Truth" seems worth repeating (perhaps this shape should be repeated). It's been fun archiving sound files of his lectures as I feel I can relate a ton to his mystical and spiritual leanings in art/life making. I have been making these new works in my time here from my own poetry, as well as, other local poets, musicians and Mr. Washington's handwriting. I just received notice that two of my poem based works will be included in an upcoming show at Mighty Tieton (with a killer catalog.)

More on the various sound editing and installation building soon!

minusing

Dryer lint minus project.

Sculpture in Three Parts

Three sculptures made from a 14 year old art materials receipt found in a book. I have none of the art materials purchased nor any artwork made from materials. Ironically only the receipt remains.

Envelope Valentine

Grocery list and phone message; minus text (another found business envelope)

Note; minus text.

I received a note written on two sides of a business envelope. On each side I traced around the perimeter of the text and then cut around the edges. Finally I opened the form to discover this composition.

Everyone We Know

This book is about to travel the country stopping at museums throughout. It is being filled with autographs of people I know. I then use their signatures to dictate the shapes and colors of the images created.

Stacked; Balsawood

Election Results; New York Times minus all information.

This composition resulted from the blacking out of all text and removal of images. If there was text it was blackened out until no more penetration was possible.

Wandering

Recent foray into the minus project. Each color represents one session of drawing. Each color is determined based on the previous color typed into Google image search with the word Rothko. I use the third paintings secondary color. I suspect these will evolve through numerous runs through the pages adjusting and tweaking rules to see what abstractions may unfold. This work is being created in Alan Watts "The Way of Zen".