The4amache - It Will Find You, Too

A door to a railroad car repair shop, long since demolished.

One summer I had a man hire me to go around and take images of town that he could then use to make into postcards. This, with many more like it, was one of the ones I submitted. It was not what he was looking for. It was too artsy for him and he abandoned the project.  At least he let me keep the photos.

I loved this door. All the textures and colors mashed together in the unlikely location of a rail yard. I miss these doors.

Quetzalcoatl inspired mempo mask, finally done and ready for molding!

Available soon in my ETSY shop!

Embryonic Specimen 2:

Guts and bones sculpted first, fired, then covered with translucent layer for the skin. Has a real depth to it in person.

Just learned of the passing of Leonard Cohen and thought I would share this. The painting below, was one I made while at SVA in the early 2000's in Ju Chung's class. We were all given a song and told to make a painting from it. I was given Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song". It was the first song I ever herd from him and only one of two I can still recall ('Hallelujah' being the other). Now, I have no idea what a 'tower of song' is, but I loved the idea of a swirling tower of record pages going up into the sky. Another lyric I landed on was "I was born with the gift of the golden voice" and the sound of the song sounded so morose and dark, and I liked the idea of this golden voice burning like a fire inside this person. And so I painted this. Not a direct, or great interpretation, but merely incorporating a couple of the things found withing.  During class when we had to present our work I remember the teacher stopping at mine and being silent for a second. He then turned and said "I have no idea what this means, but it's pretty cool."