BLOBS & LINES: Peripheral Monsters

Since 2007 I have posted and cataloged my work on Flickr but, because it's a website meant to share photographs, it doesn't really allow for any "deep thoughts" or, more importantly, the ability for me to capture the sense of day-to-day in my entries. I plan on updating my Flickr site with the more "finished" work so this blog is meant as a peripheral and an active eye on my work going forward.

In an effort to document this day-to-day process that I experience in my studio (thanks Field Museum!) I plan on posting images of unfinished and in-progress work, journal pages, photos of my palette and my work tables, photos documenting the evolving states of my studio, music that I'm currently listening to while working, links to interesting articles and artists... all of the stuff that keeps me and my work moving along towards becoming something else.
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The first images that I am posting are an unresolved series of small scale landscape paintings/collages that came out of drawings that I've been doing for the past several months: a cast of robot-soldier-monster-humanoids occupying a dark universe. These paintings are an attempt to marry a couple of different ideas that I've been working with for a while and to set them, as giants, within imaginary landscapes of buildings and garbage (craftily made of blobs of recycled acrylic paint peelings from the palette). Ideas touch on urban and global decay, isolation and conflict but simply put these ideas are born out of my imagination and putting paint to board using a visual and viscous language that is slowly evolving. Basically I'm trying to figure out how to turn some childish robot-monster scribbles into something more interesting for the viewer to look upon .