Website Update

As the title says, I updated my website! All new content! Well, some of it isn't, but others certainly are. The Attraction set, for instance, is shown for the first time in it's most complete, current form (versus the earlier incarnation I posted here).

There is still some work I need to document before I can post it, mostly ink brush work, and I will... get to that when I get to that. I doubt many of you are simply so desperately impatient to see it, so I think it can wait.

So yeah. Artwork!

Easy link.

Between the Eyes

I will have work on display all this week in the Oliver Gallery at USF. Closing reception is Friday at 7pm. You can find more information here.

I look forward to meeting people and answering questions. There will also be food, drink and generally awesome times to be had, so come check it out.

Banksy on Advertising

Here is a list of 10 great photographers that are harmful to the aspiring young artist. It's quite great actually. I've talked about a couple on this blog, actually. Not sure what that says.

Effigy of Agony

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the culmination of a many months work of work, successes and failures. These turned out so much better than I could have possibly hoped, and I am thoroughly pleased with the results.

After a huge setback with the printing of the metal plates, I was forlorn and depressed. The emulsion had failed, or some other part of the process had gone awry. I resigned myself to scan the failures and make the best of what I had to work with, creating digital composites. It took some time to get around to it, and meanwhile the plates continued to react chemically, as I had not bothered to fix them for the full length needed as I knew they were not viable. It's a good thing I didn't. The texture and discoloration are exactly what was needed.

Effigy of Agony

On a side note, sorry for the lack of posts recently, the last few weeks have been ridiculously busy. I will hopefully do better in the coming days. But really, you should all just be happy with all the new work I've been sharing. I mean really.

Attraction

I've decided to post some of the work I've been doing the past few months concerning my musings about entertainment, Florida, and other such topics. Now that I've totally teased you with my Effigy of Agony hints and snippets of course. The body of work has grown and changed around since then, as they tend to do, but I think I am just starting to get enough images for the whole of it to read as one piece or experience, and not just disjointed parts. Tell me what you think, I would love to hear the input.

Attraction

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Novelty

Where on the spectrum lies novelty or "gimmick" art, things done just because they are strange and bizarre but might otherwise lack "artistic merit"?

Are these valid forms of art? Does that actually mean anything at all? Is anyone really capable of casting that value judgement - i.e. good or bad art?