incommunicado

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Semesters end

"Descending"

I like thinking of this work as something that happened to a handrail by his own accord. He seems to have given up on his surroundings, the lack of his own stability has given him freedom to take over a different space.

Semesters end

After another long haul of a semester the dust has finally settled and I am ready to reflect a bit on the outcome. I set out early in the month of September on a piece that took pretty much the duration of the semester. I was interested in creating a work that defied the idea of the ascending/ descending nature of a stairwell based on changing the ordinary formal language of a banister handrail.

Some crude cauls I used for a series of glue ups.

This particular technique for joinery gave me the freedom for error in glue up as well as a room for grain movement.

A zillion passes later the form began to take shape.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

FYI

http://www.vincenterobles.com/

With the help of Hurricane Irene and my good friend Travis Melvin my website is now finally operational. whoo hoo and all that jazz. More to come as things get oiled and polished.

http://www.guildgreyshkul.com/artist.php?id=116

When I first came across this I thought to myself, "wow, it's like a fucked up Rothko painting..."

http://www.jennifermaestre.com/index.php

I thought this work was beautiful, an amazing use of colored pencils that have been connected through traditional weaving methods. Blew my mind.

Tidbits

So here we are deep into fall once again, the trees are still the same and there is a slight chill in the morning that can only be the remains of some coastal fog. My sunflowers are way past their prime and the lawn is starting to look like an old shag carpet that has seen better days. I traded a chicken for a pumpkin today, halloween is near. With the semester in full swing I thought it would be appropriate to show some work I have been doing recently. These one week assignments have been valuable to my current thoughts about my advancement in spring, I think of these as formal investigations.