Printed versions of the projects

All of the Places I Have Been

This is the beginning of some interpretations of what it would look like to represent all of the major places I have been in my life. This is only a technical approach with experimentation with how it may look. I have some more research to do in regards to the actual locations.

Contemporary Art

Still Life?

Anonymous Portrait

Thinking about the way we consume or appreciate art in the internet age. Even considering how we interact with each other, and the internet’s provision of access to each other and to images. This group of images acquired from the Rijksmuseum program called “RijksStudio.”

Artificial Realities.

Even to the uninitiated, these are fairly recognizable or at least archetypical images. My addition to these question the intent of the work. But even more there is a question of the intent of the viewer.

I have been thinking about the life of an artist. The genuine work of an artist. You know, the actual manipulated art materials existing right in front of you. With its thickness, and weight and smell. I question if this is even important to anyone anymore. My feeling is, we are in a society that has generally lost a passion for the authentic experience. This group of images do not represent a way of working that is typical for me, but these are a way that I can “graphically express” my ideas.

Of each of these, the project that gained my most attention is “@Play” you can see more about it in another blog post.

@Play

biomap nodes

Late Seventies BioMaps

These latest maps depict prevalent trips that happened towards the latter end of the 70's for me. Trips between aunt and uncle's house and what would eventually become a new location for my parents to live. This was just before I moved to Los Angeles to go to Art Center College of Design.

We moved from the house where I grew up, to a small ranch property that would be where we lived in a mobile home while we built my parent's new home. It was mostly finished right before I moved down to go to college.

This map is the trip I made everyday while attending MJC. I played basketball there for a year before I realized my days on a bonafide team were coming to an end. I soon took up city league basketball and continued to play the sport until I was about 47 years old. At that time I started playing organized volleyball —a sport I still play and enjoy today.

One of the more endearing maps for me right now is one I made about all of the locations of teams I played against in high school. Known as the Trans Valley League, “TVL” comprised of many small farming communities. Each one had its own personality and crop they claimed to be the “world capital of cherries, apricots or whatever...”

Life Patterns

Continued development of how these patterns of trips and locations maps of my life can overlay to become visuals that are abstract lines and patterns.

These seem to touch on a little bit of what I envisioned, and that's exciting. But they do seem too personal, and not as aesthetic as I had imagined. Possibly by combining the different paths into one composition may bring even more satisfaction.

The incorporation of the word map I have found more that I can contribute to the story.

I have a collection of words that are remarkably flexible in their meaning. Part of an interest I have had regarding the effects of a foreigner trying to learn english. A daunting task. Our use of words in the English language has been filled with multiple meanings and pronunciations. It's as if a person would need to learn a symbol that changes by the context it is placed.

Bio-Pics

This is a test compilation of stills set at 3 frames per image. It is composed of people, places, activities, past jobs, influential artists, various events, memories and locations that summarize my life. With the question of 'how can I display my mind/memories/thoughts to others?'

I am approaching this with the idea of putting in various amounts of “stills-per-thought,” letting particular amounts of frames add up to show levels of my appreciation of those fleeting moments of my life.