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 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!

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.

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"

mixed media photomontage 11/7/2016

    Two new artworks 

This photomontage I titled Negotiating the Afterlife, is 11" x 14" and made up of 20 separate pieces. includes penciled in details on the walls of the corridor and the floor.

This one is a small 4" x 6" mixed media piece, watercolors, collage, pencil. I titled this one A Province Neither Here Nor There.

09/25/2016 Photomontage

    

These collages are all 10"x14" and hand cut with an xacto blade or small scissors. Images culled from literally 60 magazines and books and more than a few hours spent on each one! I also used pencils ranging from 3H to 6 B for small details  and blending edges.

                                                   Clipped wings of Morpheus

                                                 Under a sheep's skin often hides a wolfish mind

New Collages 9/20/16

These collages are all 10"x14" and hand cut with an xacto blade or small scissors. Images culled from literally 60 magazines and books and more than a few hours spent on each one! I also used pencils ranging from 3H to 6 B for small details  and blending edges.

                                                       On a path to the Underworld                                                                            

                                                                          Wasteland

                                                                         Snake Charmer

                                                                            Graveyard Train

                                                             Beached Vessel to the Afterlife

                                                                     Meditation on Matter

collage july 1 2016

A new collage 8"x11" hand cut and glue stick 17 separate pieces

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe

Handcut collage 2016 june

This hand cut collage is 8" x 11" and uses 11 separate pieces to make up this image 

took me a few days for this one.... searching for the right black and white images that have depth,   images that have contrast ranges from soft to sharp and interesting subject matter. All juxtaposed to create a surreal scene!