my first blog

hey all
i just included a link to the blog i did last year that started me on my beefcake phase. i am still sort of in awe of some of the images that i was able to produce with photoshop. the archangel michael is my favorite.

Drama & Desire

after nearly everyone i know recommended this print show i finally made it over to the museum. i am still trying to process alot of the stuff that i saw. the things that stand out...i was astonished at the age, fragility, vs vibrancy and intact-ness. These scrolls are pristine. i am so taken with their physical presents that the images are secondary. i know completely that the reason that the scroll has just a command over a space is the supreme mastery of these printers but i found myself checking out how things were pieced together and the differences between a landscape scroll (so sexy!) and one of the more traditional vertical scrolls. i liked the screens but the scrolls are amazing. i ended up getting one of the books of the prints from the museum shop and then proceeded straight to blick to acquire supplies. i have not had my hand in art very much lately and seeing that and having so many impressions flash through my head i just need to focus of doing some work.

more stuff from paulo's portfolio

okay, the last group of my pics were some of the older drawings in my entrance portfolio. yes, there were even older ones. :(

these are some of the next steps i took. back in '99 i traveled across the country in a van for around 5 months. I had infected a friend with millenial fever and together we cultivated a near lethal case of travel lust. "Different" became the mind set, the pathway and the destination for the 21st century.

the epic journey is a classic story telling technique allowing changing landscape to mirror internal transformations.

I was armed with a polaroid and my friend was video taping. (video taping makes it seem so dated. )

i think i will be sorting out the information, experiences and images that packed themselves into those few months for the rest of my life.

happy accidents are so gay.

I was on one of the library computers and i found this pic on the desktop. i instantly recognized Harvey Milk the patron saint of the modern gay rights movement. a quick glance through the history files of the computer led me to Robert Arneson. Most of the websites talk about him in regards to his sculpture, self portraits, and political wit. This would not be the first time that i have become enamored with a sculpter's drawings. but it really is his drawings that are sexy.

I spent a lot of time looking at zak smith's "beautiful girls" Voltaire is my favorite. zak has so much of the klimt patterning that i'm into as well as the rampant sexuality that klimt was ALL about.but at the sametime these are definitely portraits in what i understand portraits to be all about

Made in Poland. contemporary pinhole photography

http://www.bostonpolishpinholephotography.com/index.html


Getting to galleries is difficult for me. I work full time at night and on weekends in addition to work study. I also live with My sister and her 6 kids so free time happens when it happens and i have to make the most of it. I have started trying to get here when the buildings open at 7am.

One of the mornings i was in my studio before most people started to arrive i decided to at least look through the doors at the pinhole exhibit up stairs. while looking a very kind gentle man came down the hall saying that it was a wonderful exhibit. when he found out i hadn't seen it yet he said, "I'm not supposed to do this but...." and unlocked the door.

maybe it was the serendipitous opening of the room that created this magical feel but i couldn't help but recall alice and her rabbit hole.

The photography is beautiful. Haunted and haunting. I was struck by how human and psychological the seemed. like Dali's set designs for Spellbound.

some of them created impossible environments while others displayed the body and its inhabitant.

i'm still sorting through my impressions

these are all from around ten years ago.