people are ridiculous...and a new piece

"furrow" above....

and as i was flipping through this year's "best of" artforum, it occurred to me that i'll never be able to read all of it, even if i wanted to. it's nothing new, i never read all of the articles. in fact, i'm usually lucky if i do more than look at the pictures. and then i realized that this is just one magazine, just one monthly issue, in a universe of written material that i will never, ever touch.

you can't do everything.

Untitled

Apparently poor webcam images of recent work WILL be posted. I have been active making art, I promise. This one was a fight. Fights can be useful. They may not yield successes, but they can be useful. This is a diptych, and because it is from a webcam, it is a mirror-image of the original.

I'm also beginning a lithography tutorial at the Kala Institute in Berkeley, which I'm very excited about. I'm hoping it will help me to develop my work, make connections, and open up local exhibition opportunities.

changes afoot (but how could it be otherwise?)

poor webcam pics of latest efforts will not be posted. plus all latest efforts are unresolved. light is essential.

killing time

the reflections from my last several posts may have offered some fairly obvious conclusions, but i feel that they are relevant to my work. this notion of 'purpose' has preoccupied my thinking for over a year. all of my thinking on the subject has led me to make light more of an issue in my work. The drawings that succeed seem to allow light to have a strong presence. i've been working on these drawings long enough now to know that the light is redemptive, somehow.