Tag: art process

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Shadows

Poly-means many

I am trying to understand the many sides of this thing.  Maybe like a blind person describing an elephant.  I have already used steel wire to make the word “open” which I plan to use to wire the book closed.  Along with openings and opportunities, there are limits.  After I fashioned the word “limit”, Gregg forged it for me, making it flatter and wider.  Then we took a photo to show the shadow, and the light.  Many of the words I’m using are opposites, but some are shades of meanings.  “Limit” may appear on or near the “glass ceiling.”

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Catching up

I’ve been experimenting with Poly-means many for awhile.   Here are three elements I’m thinking about.  The base will be a topography of plywood pieces, dyed red like the small one in the corner.    There will be glass elements.  Here is a model from foam core for the stacked glass ziggeraut.  I know that is not the usual spelling.  The third image is cut glass pieces that may find a place in this sculpture.

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New Perspective

I have been collaborating with Gregg on his sculptures.  I forget that what I draw or paint may not stand up or intersect in reality.  I worked on this, trying to think more sculpturally.  I’m still more interested in color and paint.

New Perspective
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Day in the studio

The weather here has been too cold, snowy and wet to get to the studio much.  I’m horrified what Texans have had to put up with.  At least I expect cold weather here.  And we are serviced by the Haywood EMC Co op.   

So, I was able to do some painting today.  This was started last year, but I thought it was not complex enough.  Radio Signals.

Radio Signals
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Medical Debt Horror

2020 will smack many people with horrible medical debt, no matter if they are insured or not.  Trying to deal with it is oh, so …bad.  Harassing phone calls and threatening letters, but no solutions.  Kill yourself?  How do they think you can pay if you do that?

Medical Debt Collector
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She Persisted

This has been a hell of a year.  This is a self portrait, using wood dyes, on paper.   The lose of control with the dyes mirrors my frustration.

self portrait of frustration
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Deforestation

I live in a rain forest, but nothing like a jungle in South America.  Yet, I can see the devastation caused

Deforestation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by clearing the land.  This is a new technique, using Keto dye on plywood, as well as paint and charcoal.

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Pardon this interruption

I got a terrible result of my blood test a couple of weeks ago.  As everyone knows now, steroids can work wonders.  I laid low and the numbers are back to normal for me.

Radio Waves- is anyone out there?

This painting is called Radio Waves.  Information coming from outer space?  

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Out of the Blue

A clue from a crossword puzzle that we were doing.  The answer is sudden.  I don’t know if the COVID virus qualifies, but it feels like it.  To balance out the craziness I am using a weed in a field near my home.  It is not stressed out.

Out of the Blue