Friday, August 13, 2010

Double Double Meaning

This is a cast glass piece that is entitled "Pacifiers." It may be hard to see in the image but the nipples of the baby pacifiers are cast glass bullets. War and violence holds such an odd place in our society, from the way we protest military action to how we hunger for violence and bloodshed in the cinema. Sometimes when I reflect on my childhood I consider how I was almost raised on war, in movies, games, toys. This in no way suggest that I had a poor or unhealthy childhood, but rather just a contemplation on what is normal in our culture.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Beginnings and Endings

This piece is actually shown here in its second incarnation. I'd presented it before but the ink splotches were not right, they were blobby, here they are much more distinguished. This piece is called Drowning, and its hard to see but there is actually a green frog coming out the faces mouth. It is my face. If the matters.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Art in motion



This piece was completed last year, and was my first foray into video documentation/art. To me this piece says a lot of different things, I think it speaks a lot louder than most of my other works. I like whales, a lot, and I don't like that they still get hunted, but I was also very interested in the visual aspects of this work. I'd never really done time based sculptural work before, but I was so happy with how this turned out that I tried again with a polar bear themed piece that I will post later.