Monday, May 12, 2008

Thursday, April 3, 2008

today


hypnotized by the space within and around objects.
and by layers.
emergence and convergence.

Friday, March 28, 2008

fragments

Fragmented images...the printing lately has been on glass---to float the forms and to emphasize the transparency of the forms.
All based on the textures of weathered architectural structures and the layers that emerge with a closer look.

I have recently been thinking a lot about archaeological methods and reading a book called "Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past" by Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas which deals with various levels of archaeological process and discourse in relation to contemporary society. I am particularly drawn to the "garbage paradigm" project by William Rathje and also to this blurb coming from a discussion on the abject within ch.1. Sheds some light on my interest in digging up layers and the emergence of fragments in imagery...

a quote from the work of Michael Shanks:
"The excremental culture of archaeology, which may wish to avoid the nausea of loss and an absent past, finds gratification in a purifying perhaps neurotic desire to hold on and to order. It is allied with the marginalization of feeling and of heterogeniety, the irreducible otherness of the past' (Shanks 1992: 75).
p.11


The starting photos from detroit eastside...

The aftermath on glass....more to come.


Monday, March 24, 2008

recent makings





As of late, I have had a bit of an obsession with children's storybook images and vintage sewing patterns. I am into the color and texture of the pattern paper, and the arrows etc. More to come....