New sculpture for 2019 In Flux

In Flux 
36"x23"x3 1/2"
Another meditation on Impermanence. 
This one took awhile to complete a lot of details that I can still probably add. Lots of metal, wood, glass, plexiglass, transparencies, fabric, my own photographs, old paper, paint, pen and collage to build this one. I listened to a lot of music that nudged me along Ben Howard, Karen O & Dangermouse, Burials Untrue album. 

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Drifting new assemblage sculpture

A new one for 2019, I started this last year but abandoned it when I lost focus on what I was doing with it.  I finally got to work on it after staring at it for a couple of months on my work table and formulating ideas. Getting into the proper headspace and listening to some Jazz, specifically Ike Quebec and Pharaoh Sanders, which is new to me. 

This piece is 24" x9"x7" and is cobbled together with a variety of found wood from the swap meet and beach flotsam, metal, rubber squares, glass, an assortment of old paper found at the swap meet, the image of the man on the top of the sculpture is a glass negative I found broken at the swap meet for $1. I used acrylic paint, paint pens, pencil for mark making and a bit of collage to complete this piece. 

The words I wrote for it and gave me the final idea to complete the sculpture are:

The search for your invisible heart has been plagued as I drift from one outpost to another.

 I remember sitting next to you the man who called me son, 

your hands clasped as if in prayer, the wooden hands of an idol.
When I stumbled upon your crumbling body,

 that monument of pain,

 I dug into your heart and found an empty mine, it's treasures looted and buried in time.

Mixed media assemblage sculpture

This new one I titled: Casts a Long Shadow

24"x22"x4"

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Mixed Media Assemblage Titled Gravity June 2018

Heres a new assemblage sculpture i've made 24' X 25" x9"  I've tilted it Gravity.

Incorporated into it are collage, ceramic, metal, wood, glass. The words that are on the wood on the left and right side of the sculpture are:

Prepared as I am to watch my step

 I have to keep a vigilant eye

All this time I've had eyes in my head

Yet I couldn't see that I've been dead 

For as long as I can remember.

I hope its interpreted in the spiritual sense!

Mixed Media Assemblage 2018

This Heart Has many Dead Ends

Mixed media assemblage 

11"x16"
2018

A new piece I've finished this week. I trying to add ceramic into my work with the word Hypothermia embossed into some clay and fired in the kiln. I know its a small piece of ceramic but I don't want to draw attention to the fact that I'm using clay in my work. I like to be subtle about it, to try and  combine materials seamlessly. Ive been taking a ceramics class and love working with clay I can't wait to explore ways to include it in my work.

New Assemblage for 2018

A New Assemblage I've been working on for 2018
30"x 20"x 7"
Titled - I Can't Keep My Eyes Off You.
Another meditation on impermanence.

This one took me awhile to complete I don't know if it was because I was struggling with what materials to use/ how to use them or the fact that I was back surfing again and that burned up some of my creative time in the day. I have to keep telling myself that I should have no preconcieved notions on what a sculpture should look like. I want to combine and juxtapose whatever materials I deem important to the final result. I'm trying to get away from allowing the shape of the material I use in the sculpture to determine the final look. I looking for something amorphous,  something like an exploded diagram of a three dimensional object.

I'm trying to get away from allowing myself to be lured into putting things into the four surfaces of a container like some of my older pieces.

Mixed Media titled Countdown reconfigured plans

      A new mixed media piece this one is 17" x 20"  incorporates drawing and a bit of collage.  I used some old blueprints for the foundation and then layered pen, pencil, color markers and colored pencils, thinking a lot about the fragility of life and how generally we take for granted our health and mobility.  

                                                                           

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Sculpture assemblage latest one 08/07/17

mixed media collage

A new one I've been working on part of a triptych this is one panel of the piece. This one side is 9'x7" the total size of the triptych is 27"'x21"  It is titled -  In and Out of Consciousness. I'm using as the foundation the covers of hardback books and then I glue paper that is sourced from various old books, maps, typewritten paper, transparent paper and finish up with water color and pencil.

Mixed Media Collage

This is the latest mixed media piece I'm working on I've titled it Periphery and its 8"x10".

Im trying to reduce the amount of cut images from the media and incorporating more of my own mark making and drawing into these pieces. Im utilizing watercolor, variety of numbered pencils, ink pens and a bit of acrylic paint.

I'm using paper from old books and transparent paper i like the different shades of browns that these  papers give. 

Mixed Media piece

This piece titled Outpost is 16" x13" and utilizes a variety of papers from old books.

I sketched out the skull, lotus, circles and lettering then came in with acrylic paints, pens and ink.

layered in some transparencies over the skull and a few images cut from books like the silhouetted people, a hand and moon. 

Incantation Mixed Media Collage

Incantation 5" x7" mixed media collage

New Photomontages 2017

These three photomontages are 11"x14" and hand cut  and penciled in details

This one is titled "Collapsing into the Void"

                                             This one is titled " Fell on Dark Days"

                                   This one is titled "The Difficult Crossing"