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Springtime Shenanigans
The first few months of 2022 have been a blistering blur. I've continued working at the Cultural Arts Center, am teaching two sections of Drawing for Entertainment Design at CCAD (one section in-person, one section virtual - as exhausting of a combination as it sounds) and just last week started my third job at One Line Coffee in Franklinton. The three-gig-life will luckily be short lived, as the semester wraps up in the next three-and-a-half-weeks. My Tuesdays/Thursdays now consist of being up at 5AM, working 6AM to 12PM at One Line, teaching in-person 12:30-3:15PM, and finishing up with the Cultural Arts Center from 3:30-6:30PM. Tonight, however, I added on a three hour session of portraiture modeling at the McConnell Arts Center. If this doesn't have mania-inducing energy written all over it, I don't know what does - LOL!
In addition to the bananas multi-gig life, I'm participating in a number of fairs and festivals this spring! To start, I participated in CCAD's Spring Art Fair almost two weeks ago, and think I did the best I've ever done in terms of sales and prep beforehand. I told myself not to overkill it with inventory - things left over can always transition to the next festival/fair. Merch included earrings made from the cardboard of La Croix boxes, framed cacti drawings, framed fruit/vegetable drawings, "goofy perspective" drawings of my apartment's interior, and a $5 grab box of random drawings over the last few years. I always feel like I take such a different approach to these kinds of events in comparison to exhibitions of my work ("merch" vs. "work" maybe?) but don't mind it. I like having a lot of diversity in what I create. In early May, I'll be participating in the first ever Columbus Alternative Art Book Fair in Weinland Park, which will happen over two days the first weekend (5/7 - 5/8, 12-5PM). At the end of May, I'll be a part of the Friendship Flea that's popping up in Clintonville. This will take place 5/22, 12-5PM on 3535 N. High Street. I can't wait for both!
Alas, the madness will end soon enough (I think???), and I'll be celebrating on Friday (the 13th, bwahahaha) of May (semester officially O-V-E-R) by dancing my ass off at a Taylor Swift themed night at Skully's, drinking a ghastly amount of tequila, and dog sitting two of my favorite puppers over that same weekend - come to mama...
Also, a GIGANTIC announcement is coming soon...stay tuned! For now, peeps some of my recent fair/festival creations!
In addition to the bananas multi-gig life, I'm participating in a number of fairs and festivals this spring! To start, I participated in CCAD's Spring Art Fair almost two weeks ago, and think I did the best I've ever done in terms of sales and prep beforehand. I told myself not to overkill it with inventory - things left over can always transition to the next festival/fair. Merch included earrings made from the cardboard of La Croix boxes, framed cacti drawings, framed fruit/vegetable drawings, "goofy perspective" drawings of my apartment's interior, and a $5 grab box of random drawings over the last few years. I always feel like I take such a different approach to these kinds of events in comparison to exhibitions of my work ("merch" vs. "work" maybe?) but don't mind it. I like having a lot of diversity in what I create. In early May, I'll be participating in the first ever Columbus Alternative Art Book Fair in Weinland Park, which will happen over two days the first weekend (5/7 - 5/8, 12-5PM). At the end of May, I'll be a part of the Friendship Flea that's popping up in Clintonville. This will take place 5/22, 12-5PM on 3535 N. High Street. I can't wait for both!
Alas, the madness will end soon enough (I think???), and I'll be celebrating on Friday (the 13th, bwahahaha) of May (semester officially O-V-E-R) by dancing my ass off at a Taylor Swift themed night at Skully's, drinking a ghastly amount of tequila, and dog sitting two of my favorite puppers over that same weekend - come to mama...
Also, a GIGANTIC announcement is coming soon...stay tuned! For now, peeps some of my recent fair/festival creations!
entry eight
oh what fun, 2021
Twenty one hand painted bags for ROY G BIV Gallery's smallworks 2021 exhibition (and my infamous, beat-to-shit yellow Crocs) (and yes, it's really been an entire year since my last entry...more frequent updates is a '22 resolution! ;)).
entry seven
"The Dairy Queen's Gambit"
"The Dairy Queen's Gambit" - a cheeseburger themed chess set created for ROY G BIV Gallery's "Peace Out 2020" smallworks exhibition.
Hungry? Let's play!
Hungry? Let's play!
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entry six
"CHRUMP 2020"
"CHRUMP 2020" digital renderings - hoping to realize these into a hand cut paper form, wall-bound, and tentatively installed in a gallery space in February 2021.
Digital sketch of installation, each one to be backlit by fluorescent "MAGA" red:
entry five
Extraction 101...
New work in the making and on exhibit in early December...
entry four
WILIL DRAW YOUR ZOOM MEETING FOR FOOD
Illustration/Comics Department Meeting - May 1st, 2020
entry three
Can you "break" paper?
Latest evolution in recent work involves figuring out how to "break" paper. Playing with shatter patterns, ways to fragment, and continuing to use my little slice of the sky as a light box.
Times are really weird friends...keep making. <3
entry two
Come to my window...
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Test pieces for a new body of work I will be exhibiting in September 2020. Playing with light, entrances and exits, surface manipulation, and condensation as a means to convey exact moments of grief both instantaneously pierced and strenuously revisited.
entry one
Playing with ghosts...
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Sifting through old images (left, fall 2018) and new images (right, last night - 1/24/2020) I still think about the next iteration of junk dazzle silhouettes - the body interacting with material/more abstraction of the body itself vs. letting the body totally be as is - no forced positioning or trying to appear a certain calibrated and calculated way (i.e. "hot"). Even still, there are familiar positions I automatically fall back to in both of these shots - a body language inherently ingrained. Culling through research, I find a summary of women and the incessant photographing of themselves for the internet in Peggy Orenstein's "Girls and Sex" (2016) familiarly stinging - "a commercialized, one-dimensional, infinitely replicated, and, frankly, unimaginative vision of sexiness...set to perform rather than to feel sensuality." Had I performed the acts of mania and depression rather than felt them? Can you make someone "feel" your body, by how you present your body?
Early on in the summer of 2018, still in the haze of postgraduate purgatory, I wondered what it would be like to know the arrangement/pairing/partner/interaction I wanted beforehand, and execute it during the initial photographing process. Before, hundreds of images were shot, arranged, printed, extracted, and paired together in any way I saw fit - like a puzzle where the pieces were never tethered to a greater whole. The shots below in my then apartment demonstrate my new attempt:
Early on in the summer of 2018, still in the haze of postgraduate purgatory, I wondered what it would be like to know the arrangement/pairing/partner/interaction I wanted beforehand, and execute it during the initial photographing process. Before, hundreds of images were shot, arranged, printed, extracted, and paired together in any way I saw fit - like a puzzle where the pieces were never tethered to a greater whole. The shots below in my then apartment demonstrate my new attempt:
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...followed up with some pleasingly crude digital collaging...
...resulting in an equally crude drawing on tracing paper I quite like.
Lately, and ironically enough, I've thought that me / my body / my face/ anything directly and obviously mememememe should take a backseat visually in newer work, at least for a little while. I don't know exactly why; perhaps fatigue or feeling it's all too repetitive. Regardless of reason, the uncertainty and inner struggle will ultimately feed the work itself...
It always does.
entry zero
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