Questionable Moral Action 261

This is a drawing from about 2 1/2 years ago and it will be one of the six pieces I will have on display at the From the Earth exhibition beginning next week. This is probably one of the first pieces that I began to experiment with the ’struggle of organic life’ theme that I am currently pursuing for my next big solo show. I thought it would be cool to show it because it sort of inspired the direction I am currently headed:

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Questionable Moral Action 261   •   Graphite on bristol board   •   24″ x 31″   •   2007

From the Earth at Nelson Fine Art Gallery

This is shaping up to be the event of the summer! Not really, but it should be good! Everyone’s invited!

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Postcard design is attributed to the transcendental escapist you all know and love.

Macrocosm

This is the third and final part to the Cosm installation. It is a digital projection of a looping animated sequence that I created (with the help of Adam Ansorge – thanks!) in Adobe After Effects. Throughout the half-hour, the camera zooms in until the screen is completely filled with red and the zooms back out in a never-ending loop. The entire screen stays solid red for about 12 minutes in each half-hour loop. The quality of the pictures below aren’t of the greatest quality, but it is really difficult taking pictures of a digital projection in a somewhat darkened room. The video was projected from that white box in the foreground. I thought that since it was the only thing in the center of the room that it would be really obvious. But, as it turns out, it camouflaged really well, and most people did not even realize it was there!

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Cosm (Part II)

This is the second part of the Cosm installation. What you see here are digital prints that I cut out and then adhered to both sides of the glass windows separating both galleries. The imagery derives from Microcosm. Microcosm is a repeating pattern and the second part of Cosm shown here is just one tile of that pattern.

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As seen from inside Gallery 2

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As seen from inside Gallery 1 (with some really creepy-looking guy in the background)

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A view looking through the glass at Microcosm on the far wall

Microcosm

Microcosm is part one in a three part digital installation called Cosm. Microcosm is comprised of 30 digital inkjet prints, individually framed and hung on the wall (thanks to Karlota and her crew – I would never have been able to hang all of that by myself in time for the show!). The complete dimensions are about 8 feet by 9 feet. The actual artwork was hand-drawn, using only a mouse, in Adobe Illustrator (I’m going to have to get myself a Wacom tablet one of these days to make my job a little easier!).

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