Thesis Work. 2003

I don't believe I've put much of this up before. Part of my thesis show, I'll try and put up the rest in the coming days. I hope I can find them all!
Each one of these , no matter how ugly, I approached as visual essays on art, culture, sublimity and profanity.

Worlds Without Master #9!

I got to do the cover for Worlds Without Master's 9th Issue! 
It is born out of reading a bunch of Clark Ashton Smith for the first time. Boy that is some weird stuff. The fantastic realms that Dr Strange travels through as envisioned by Steve Ditko in his legendary run had to have been inspired by those stories.
It was one of the hardest things I've made, before the last hard thing I made anyway. It doesn't especially look like it, but if you could see the hundred discarded layers you might agree. I started off with a much more Richard Powers type of concept but it wanted to be something else entirely and took on it's own life. I had been up all night, it started to exert some dramatic pull on my consciousness, forming my decisions as to it's creation. I finished it at 5am. It was the first sunrise all nighter I have pulled since college. I felt shaky and drained and my speech was full of muttering and garbled pockets the next day. Now when I look at it I think I'm staring at some kind of twisted Yantra.


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Portland Community College Faculty Show

My 24' x 48" Acrylic painting I just finished for the PCC "Disembodied Hands" Faculty Show.
Extremely difficult to execute in just a couple weeks with a one year old and a five year old and no real time to dedicate, which was precisely the inspiration for the image.  A a certain point I gave up trying to make a "painting" and just tried to execute a decent "colored drawing." An annoying fact of acrylic painting is, even using an open or extending medium I found that the paint would pill up in the 90 degree heat rather easily, leaving little boogers all over the canvas.