By a thread: string as medium in contemorary art

Visually interesting and cool history of string as an art medium
from the past to contemporary times at Modern Edition.com


http://www.modernedition.com/art-articles/string/string-art-history.html

Henry Moore

 

Eva Hess

Gabrial Dawe

http://www.modernedition.com/art-articles/string/string-art-history.html

Collage recent artwork

Four  5 New Collage

working on some more stuff  trying to figure out when thier done..are they ever done

Collages in Progress

Busy on these collages, works in progress. Im using some of my photographs in a few of the collages and combined with images from other sources. Painting the backgrounds black and adding soft pencils and colored pencils for a hint of color.

Christian Death

A couple of photos I took of the band Christian Death in 1982 at Godzillas with the original lineup
Rozz Williams, Rick Agnew, James McGearty, George Belanger
The vinyl, Hell Comes to Your House which had Christian Deaths's song Dogs  and Christian Deaths first LP Only Theatre of Pain were always on the turntable.
I thought they were great band live, at the begining of a show at the Whiskey that we saw Christian Death performing at there was dramatic lighting, I believe candles and they brought rozz out in a shroud while the band was playing slowly, as the music got louder and faster they ripped open the fabric and out spilled roses or flowers and roz... he grabbed the mic and launched into song..pretty dramatic and cool to see live.
kinda like Bauhaus when they played the Roxy in 82' loud, dramatic and atmospheric..

COLLAGES

 

 

Some more collages ive been working on lately

10. Balance and Composure - "Echo"

http://youtu.be/Ey9KR89K828

new collages

These are some new collages im working on, continuing on with appropriating images and incorporating some of my own imagery into them. Im creating these images the old fashioned way with a pair of small scissors, a glue stick and a ton of books, magazines, my own images, advertising brocures, old letters written years ago to loved ones that I buy at the swap meet, sometimes these old letters inspire an image. I think they are a great creative tool. Prior to these examples of collages I was working on cabinet photos, bought at the swap meet, painting on them and adding a few small additions to twist the original. Now im having fun incorporating the images, bought at the swap meet, into collages that are generally about 8"x10" allowing me more freedom to combine a variety of images from different sources and tweek them to make something different.  Im going through tons of old books and magazines to get snippets of images and bring them together.  I was inspired by a friend Rob Slater who uses digital media to create his collages. Here is his site http://drift2540.com/

 

 

Vanishing Twin

 

Surf was created on day 8

False prophets

The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams

New Stuff

 

45t - ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE COTONOU - General Gowon