Previous Projects

I was going through old photos and thought I would recap some long forgotten moments in art making.

Here we have a couple pieces from the summer 2009 I believe. The first now belong to the archives of art collector Erica Sheets.
Here we have a modest (and cynical) comment on spiritism (notice the octopus head on the green cnadle).

Here are a couple pieces that I think well of but have never found a successful installation site , which I have learned in most instances is just as important as the piece itself. These works, as with much of my undergraduate work, brought attention to an undefined yet central space – a space evoking meaning yet left abstract.  I am critical of these works in general as they attempt specifically to evoke a sense of God.  In the duration of this period I am all but directly telling you that some perceivable and intangible force is there. The great “beat around the bush” so to speak.

I still enjoy them however.  This one carried a more relatable and humorous problem. Viewers (especially children) had trouble following the title and just “being still.” Who could blame them. There’s primary colors. Who wouldn’t want to play with them and spin then and stuff?

This One combined scraps from other drawings. I guess it’s just too damn long.  

It currently resides in my humble abode.

Here’s my graduation show, and one of my final moments with my father.

Moving to Oakland changed things dramatically for me and there are some paintings better left unmentioned. Dare I speak of the commission ”Angel of Respect?” Painting on this car seemed an appropriate reentry to creating as an avocation.

This was a lot of fun too. Over the course of several weeks, children who were a part of an after school tae kwon doe group collaborated on this piece in response to learning the concept of shalom – a concept of peace dependent on community where all parts are intertwined to create a more brilliant and strong whole. Sounds pretty intriguing…

Further, our group consisted of children from multiple ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. Weaving their creative work together consisted of challenges, and I think some had trouble understanding what the point of any of it actually was. Nevertheless, it gives a better, more visual representation of what was happening in reality.  These children’s stories and histories are now interwoven. They begin and end separately yet there is a point of tension and interaction in the middle. What we are left with is this big and somewhat odd piece of art, which now graces the sanctuary of Re:generation Church.

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