Birds of a feather...

Nov. 03 2013

Found today and made this evening. I love when these pieces just flow together. I do not have a title as of yet for this new piece, but one will be forthcoming with additional thought and research.

Floating Cake for Sara

Sep. 13 2013

I've been experimenting with new collage varieties lately, and this chocolate cake here is the first in my dabbling with food scenes. More to come! This one is for my wife, Sara. 11" x 14" found vintage cookbook cut-out w/ mixed media & colored tape.

Some Strange Powers

Aug. 22 2013

Newest in the series of collage creations. I had fun making this one! "Some Strange Powers" measures 9"x 10". The piece consists of a bear image cut and assembled w/ mixed media on found photographic element. Enjoy! And also, this piece and many more are available in my Etsy shop. Just click aforementioned link or click the "shop" tab above, either way, you are there, you are right on.

A Sea of Thoughts, a Head full of Vision...

Jul. 30 2013

New piece for these mid summer timeframes: "blindshore"

18" x 24" found 1970s beach sunset image, complete with darkened figure walking the sands of time, the shore of sound and vision, that is. 

Emanate and instigate, oscillate wildly and forever walk alone.

Suspended Inanimate (glider)

Jul. 01 2013

Whoa, it has been a while, but I'm still here, there and forever near. Here's a new one for those crisp summer days. Waking from a deep sleep to the sound of the world outside. "Suspended Inanimate" found imagery with tape in flux whilst gliding the transient airfoils.

Far Off Places

Apr. 23 2013

The landscape is changing
The landscape is crying
Thousands of acres of forest are dying
Carbon copies from the hills above the forest line
Acid streams are flowing ill across the countryside

'Cause I don't care if you're going nowhere
Just take good care of the world
I don't care if you're going nowhere
Just take good care of the world

Of course these are lyrics from the song Landscape is Changing, featured on Depeche Mode's 1983 album Construction Time Again. This piece below is that song's namesake, and is created out of necessity, necessary to the progress and growth of a place I visited and enjoyed in my youth -- the mighty Yosemite Valley. I'd like to think Ansel Adams viewed the monolith El Capitan through a stained glass filtered monoscope of some sort. Trip and tripped therefore. I went here in the '80s, we left behind ourselves, this place provided memories. Now so far away I sit and recall, accessing the old banks of my mind. I wore pink and red, and I rode a colorful skateboard along bumpy forest paths. This piece heralds a specific time period in Yosemite Valley, one that I alone recall vividly.

Inflight Arrangements

Apr. 15 2013

New piece for the aerial set. Arranged and made flight ready w/ cut-out geese and colored tape on found vintage nature imagery. 9" x 10" and them some, some. Okay.

New Pieces Available!

Mar. 27 2013

I've been busy lately making a few new pieces here in Ohio. This one below, "Canopy Phase" can be purchased on Etsy. Click this LINK and you will be there in a flash!

Next Happening: Wider Than a Postcard (May 2013, PDX)

Mar. 04 2013

Long lapses in between posts, unfortunately, appears to be my MO lately. However, there is a bit of lightsource at the end of a never ending, long, twisting, spiraling, and dark winter tunnel. This upcoming May I am happy to be a small part of a very large show in my dear old place of existenz, Portland, OR.

The show is called "Wider than a postcard" and I am contributing three 4" x 6" postcards of original tape art. The show will be set up by combining all 100+ contributing artists' postcards into a giant, grid-like pattern on one wall. I envision it to appear like a strange, incongruous mosaic with no real rhyme or reason.

These three works below will be in there, somewhere. If you happen to find yourself in those soggy, spring environs that only Portland can provide, please swing by Breeze Block gallery and check this shit out. Lemme know how it looks, as I will not be in attendance, but rather dealing with trying to survive in the Midwest. Good times to be had, of course.

Flushed From a Tidal Retreat

Jan. 30 2013