The Paint Swatch

Wheels for Meals

2009-11-03T21:08:00.001-08:00

Wheels For Meals is where an individual gets the use of my truck, my help moving and my company in exchange for a home cooked meal.

Orignal Concept/Sketch for Wheels For Meals

somewhere around August 1st

Know Show Thursdays 10/15/09

2009-10-16T15:11:00.000-07:00

Ramzy teaches us the skill on how to decipher Arabic stereotypes.

Terry asked a volunteer to write down ways to be rich.

Terry showing us the ways in which to act, look, and be rich.

Sam Macdonald showing all how easy it is to vermicompost.

Objective/Subjective

2009-10-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

Bucket Seat

MWC Weekly Special

Gifts

2009-10-06T09:01:00.000-07:00

Boxes made for studio mates

Scrap wood, no hardware.

Making Without Consuming: Special of the Week #2

2009-09-30T09:44:00.001-07:00

Discarded milk crate and found spray paint.

KNOW SHOW THURSDAYS

2009-09-19T12:01:00.001-07:00

Cramer The Clown teaching Balloon Animals

Balloon Animals

John Hilger teaching us how sound propagates underwater

Discussing what Know Show is

Ryan lafereny discussing the educational value of youtube

Know Show Thursdays is a series of talks/lectures/performances that take place every third Thursday in Epperson Underground (INDA Studio’s). Know Show consist of three 15-minute presentations in which peers teach skills that are not necessarily taught in institutional settings. The presentations are taught by individuals who have experience within specific skill that they teach and enjoy sharing it with others. Know Show is completely open to anyone both in presenting and in participation. On every third Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at the Epperson Underground come, take part and play a part in Know Show Thursdays.

Progress

2009-09-11T10:31:00.000-07:00

Chalkboard Talks

Know Show Thursday Space/Stage/Epperson Underground Venue

Making Without Consuming: Special of the Week

2009-09-07T19:38:00.001-07:00

Chalk Tray

Scrap 2 x 4 and particle board bench

INDA 6 and Final

2009-08-30T05:52:00.000-07:00

I will be apart of the last class of Interdisciplinary Arts at Kansas City Art Institute. Also known as INDA, it has been a tour de force of a department under the direction of artist Julia Cole. The program is rooted in self direction, critical practice and collaborative efforts. There are currently 9 Seniors who will be apart of INDA's 6th and final graduating class.

Image of my studio during the first week of the semester.

Edible Campus: Brighton, England

2009-08-16T07:39:00.000-07:00

Showing them dirty hands!!!

Edible Campus is a collaborative project with students of the University of Brighton, a local Community Center and the staff of the Campus Culinary Service. It is a rooftop garden directly above the campus cafeteria and is a completely self sustaining rooftop garden.

Artist Goals

2009-05-01T10:01:00.000-07:00

List of Goals to be completed in my time here at the University of Brighton.

December 29th, 2008 - June 9th, 2009

Towers of Babel

2009-04-22T16:41:00.000-07:00

Side By Side: 18 Brits and a Yank

2009-04-21T08:20:00.001-07:00

The Man With No Name

Bindle Stick plays 10 tracks selected from The Legendary Italian Westerns by Ennio Morricone

Side By Side Show, University of Brighton, 2nd year Sculpture Show

2009-04-21T03:01:00.000-07:00

Untitled #2/Idea

2009-04-19T09:13:00.000-07:00

Self Portrait Blocking the Duomo by Accident

work in progress 20/4/09

Florence, Italy.

Grand Tour

2009-04-16T09:55:00.000-07:00

In 1670 the phrase "Grand Tour" first appeared in the preface of Richard Lassels's The Voyage of Italy. By The eighteenth century the Grand Tour, which often lasted from a few months to several years, had become a part of the expected education of every European nobleman, and then every student of architecture. The primary destination of this tour was Italy, with its heritage of ancient Roman monuments and picturesque landscapes. "The man who has not been to Italy," wrote Samuel Johnson, "is always conscious of an inferiority from his not having seen what is expected of a man should see"

Taken From The Necessity For Seeing, Brian M. Ambroziak, Michael Graves, Images of a Grand Tour, Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2005

Rembrandt's Semblance

2009-04-16T00:39:00.000-07:00

The Digital Self portrait

images collected from Facebook.

Horizon Series

2009-04-14T10:02:00.001-07:00

Horizon Lines

Collaboration with Artist Lauren Bowen

Water collected from Brighton Beach and placed at our individual eye height.

Horizon Series

Drawing the Horizon

Collaboration with Artist Lauren Bowen.

Untitled No.1, For My Mother

2009-03-06T10:37:00.000-08:00

untitled (#1) For My Mother

My Mom grew up believing the Wizard of Oz was a black and white, until the family bought their first color TV in 1972. She was 17 at the time. Currently, I am extracting the color from the first iconic shots where the film transitions from black and white to color.

On the Edge of Civilisation

2009-03-05T11:34:00.000-08:00

The Independent, A Year In Wild Britain

2009-02-28T11:14:00.000-08:00

Gulliver in Lilliput

2009-02-25T13:46:00.000-08:00

Coincidences in Studio Practice

2009-02-23T12:22:00.000-08:00

Found Gulliver's Travels Film Reel

February 2009

Found Band aid in my house

February 2009

Since I have been in Brighton I feel like a constant drifter or nomad. I feel rooted as much as indoor house plant can be. My work has been utilizing these emotions to create a body of work while here. The first book I bought in Brighton was Gulliver's Travels, a month later, I find a micro film of illustrations of it in a slide projector. The American West is a metaphor that I have been working with a lot through my sculpture and drawings; tents, stagecoaches, also sound pieces using Ennio Morricone musical compositions(spaghetti westerns). In the medicine cabinet in my house I was looking for a band aid and found this one.

Left Eye, Right Eye Landscape

2009-02-19T14:45:00.001-08:00

Left Eye Right Eye Landscape

Cafe Direct Cups, two nails

February 2009

Two Cafe direct disposable cups are place next to each other on the wall, the cups are cut open and the bottoms are removed. There appears to be a tea stain in both of the cups. The Viewer invited to place their face in between the two cups. At the approximate distance of the eyes to the cups, the images merge and make a continuous peripheral landscape.

Studio Practice

2009-02-19T14:10:00.000-08:00

Paint it as Natural as can be

Paint swatch of Georgian DH Green Grass and Sky Blue

Found Print Out of the United States in Brighton, England

February 18th, 2009. 3:30 pm.