Forensic Self Portrait
An undergraduate drawing assignment, which kicks off an interdisciplinary studio course exploring visual language and meaning.
I’ve Got a Boner for Jesus
This month I’ve been thinking about my early religious education that was mostly centered around my participation in a church choir through much of my youth. That experience established a life long love of music, especially gospel, jazz, folk and rock-n-roll. In spite of the many contradictions and misgivings I …
Visualizing Ideas and Opportunities through Mood Boards
Moving beyond words and experiencing the world through our sensations can spark insights that we may act upon through the design and making of a thing. The ephemeral nature of a doodle, a sketch, a collage of images, a collection of artifacts, cumulatively can reveal a trust about the agency of things…
Oooh La La
Oooh la la, music from my inner francophile that I’m listening to in the studio. Enjoy. La Mer by Charles Trenet La merQu’on voit danser le long des golfes clairsA des reflets d’argentLa merDes reflets changeantsSous la pluie La merAu ciel d’été confondSes blancs moutonsAvec les anges si pursLa merBergère …
Bored with New York City’s Art Scene?
A mixed tape, a sweaty group show, a talk about my art, a poem by Jericho Brown, and Janis Joplin singing. What more could I ask for?
Aesthetic Polytheism
I think my best work is often confounding to myself, and to others; meaning slips through fingers.
Bloodlines
Private lives are difficult to trace in the public pages of history. While birth, marriage, and death are fairly clear public markers of heterosexual private lives, the private lives of the homosexual are all too often erased, or redacted from our shared histories. This is exacerbated when honest revelations about …