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It's funny when, how, given enough time, and distance, ideas can just crystallize in the mind, they emerge, following a written (drawn) structure, ineffably certain; maddeningly clear.

My paintings are about space. I am interested in space. In how it is constructed, in how we perceive it. And how shapes of it define what is and what is not. I am fascinated by the political implications of space, and the psychological. And it is this thing, this noun, this obtuse, effusive noun, that drives me to make my pictures the way I do.

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I make records of movements. These records are always threatening, in my experience, to dissolve into unorganized conglomerations (re: my studio, truck, etc) of junk: meaningless. Detritus. Chaos. The human will, with it's disposable, no, opposable thumb and soaring visual capacity and preoccupation with the future (re: fear), cannot exist, has no reality, without them, these records of movements, but they must be actuated, they must mean. And the stick figures begin.

I draw stick figures because I am afraid of the dark. Listen, I'm trying o explain...

more words (and pictures) forthcoming

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I like the Fall

Oakland
Joey doing "The Douche"
She just doesn't know what to say. It's so...round

Girl can boogie on her bootie like nobodies biz
dreamtime, sunset/moonrise on All Souls Eve in Alamo Square Park

All Peoples Temple-Building the Temple/Process

So, a few weeks ago my good friend Eugene Steele approached me and asked me if it would be possible to construct a temple that incorporated many aspects of the religious history of the world that would celebrate the diversity and uncanny unity of humanities' highest spiritual ambitions. Sure, no problem I said. I haven't slept since.

The All People's Temple is 12' x 8' painting on 1/4 " door skin that has been jigsawed out into sections representing religious architectures from various historical periods/geographic regions. The pieces fit together and will be mounted on a 3/4 " plywood backdrop that supports a painting of a stylized Tree of Life, representing the organic and biologic unity of our species and planet.

The performance will involve digital video and music created and sequenced by the !APT to create a loose narrative expressing different periods of the building of the All Peoples Temple, which will be enacted kinetically by the acclaimed performance troupe Bad Unkle Sista.

There are many other elements and twists and intricacies of the production, but here are the photos of what I personally organized and called into being, with big hours coming from Lauren, Denise, Bert, Vincent and Bethany, you guys are my art-core souldjas, big ups!

Check it

Day 1 of painting the temple

Day 2

Lauren and Denise, Day 4

Lauren and Bert, Day 5

Tree of Life

Stage 1, Cave Paintings

Stage 2, Mayan Pyramid

Stage 3, Totem Poles

Stage 4, Persian Mosque

Stage 5, Shinto Shrine

Stage 6, Indonesian Wat

Stage 7, Christian Cathedrals/Complete Temple


The premiere performance is this Sunday, 8pm on the Field Stage at Symbiosis Gathering.
Future performances TBA

Painting The All Peoples Temple

Step 1 ish

How I feel, sometimes

Like these guys, and more. So much damn feeling all the time. Se la vie, je suis.
The fat comedian said: "If you were one of those dumb americans who took French in high school instead of Spanish, I hope you get stabbed at a taco truck."
God, I love taco trucks.
They're part of my heritage.
Let us pray now

Trees

Photos of drawings of photos on pulverized and glued back together chunks of the of the real things.