new photography!

Here some new photo's of my work. Alicia is a rad photographer so check out her site and her work here: Alr-photo.com

You should be seeing this stuff in my website soon too!

Website and things...

Woohoo! My website has been launched! It's still under construction however, and will be getting updates every week as I learn to use the application Check it out industrialbonzai.com! Let me know if you see something I could implement or take out, and id you've used website tonight to create a website from godaddy.com Let me know if your willing to help me out!

keep on keeping on...

While I procrastinate as well as any other, I did start to work on another tree last night while sitting in front of the TV. It must have been the first night home with enough time to actually cook myself dinner in over week or 2! I so could have completed a whole tree weaving, however I let my usual distractions get the better of me. Between avoiding writing my bio, writing a proposal, and editing photos that I don't feel are any good, I wanted to be interacting with someone or people rather than sitting at home( yay online chatting...) I think I'm also letting a conversation in my head about money stop me from moving forward with my project. I don't have the money to get the materials I need to do a quality job with my new series. I don't want to rig something up that will have me have to do a lot of clean up on the piece itself. Like in Jewelry work, the cleaner the wax is, the easier the metal is to work on after casting. This conversation has me not doing what I know to do that costs me nothing though, which is frustrating to see. I also feel like I'm ADD or something, which is just an excuse, but I had to say it... SQUIRL!!! Where was I, oh yeah, So what I see is missing is a promise, my word in the matter, a declaration of what I'm going to do and by when! A dead line to shoot for, with the things I can do, like bio and proposal and editing pictures, things that I can do to get networking with galleries. The money will come later, it always does! So By Dec 1, I'll have a bio and artist statement, a proposal, at least 6 pictures edited to submit, and have emailed/sent them out to 3 galleries! Anyone want to check on my progress on Sunday?

something new...

It seems to me that I like to forget that this blog is here, and that its mine, that I created it and it is my responsibility to up hold its intention! I have not been posting plain and simple! I often think that no one is out there reading my posts anyway so what's the point, hence forgetting that its here! I'm giving up that point of view, and I'm taking on writing at least once a week!
I have also been thinking a bunch about my work in general, and that I haven't really done anything in sculpture in a long time. I haven't been passionate about it at all for a long time. I have been passionate about my paintings, and I had created that by having a show, a future to live into. So I'm going to do the same with my sculptures! I'm creating being passionate! I'm creating a future to live into with my sculpture and taking on having a show for my sculpture by April!
One of passion's definitions is having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid. I particularly like fervid though; heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm! I can see that I'm so missing being enthusiastic with my art and my art career! So now what actions are there to take when I'm being enthusiastic?!? Well for starters finishing my artist bio and statement, then but not after, contact galleries and see what formats I need to prepare to prepose shows and whatnot. Oh and create more sculptures! I'm working on a new series of Industrial Bonzai! I'll show pictures of any finished work as soon as I can, but for now I'm keeping my ideas to myself! All there is to do is create the work! So I'm off...

concrete jungle... and back slashes!

I've been in the inquiry of how I can promote/expand/sell my series of Industrial Bonzai. One of the initial themes or thoughts or expressions these trees were/are about is how we, as a society, continue to create concrete jungles to work/live/play in( I really like the back slash BTW). We continue to plant trees is limiting concrete planters or portions of side walk to beautify an area of harsh buildings and highways. What I also think is intresting to think about is that for all the trees that way back in the past populated our cities compared to what we try to plant to make up for what was lost is such a small fraction, especially to think that part of whats behind planting trees is bringing green/oxigen/life back in where it has long been gone( harsh I know, but its a statement of how little our society is really engaged in a "greener" future. I also have no documentation nor have I done any real research to back anyhting up, this is just my perception of things)!

I recently had a conversation about my trees, and what I had shared about how I viewed them and what I was looking to engage the viewers in is not really what people were experiencing as a viewer. Hmmmm, I wondered if that would be the general interpritation of my work by a larger audiance or maybe just one view of many that I had recieved after a very superficial survey.

I have decided to kill 2 birds with one stone on this inquiry. Simultaniuosly I will be creating a branch/continuation of the series Industrial Bonzai, and finding a gallery and scheduling a show for the pieces. What a perfect way to have a survey/conversation to get a sence of the peoples perception of my work. So first I invite/request you all to support me in my quest/game of having my art be available for people to experience. Who knows any gallery owners, or anything about getting a show in a gallery? It was the one thing I didn't get out of a college education!

A whole YEAR!!

Well its a been a whole year and a day since my last post... huh... I guess its time to get bloging again! So up date, I had a show in Aug with my paintings, and I'll post them, and it went well... slow. I was hoping for a bigger turn out, and I can only blame myself, as I did not have flyers or cards to hand out to friends and family and anyone. On the up side I did sell a painting, so exciting! I have plans for a show for my sculptures some time in 2011 so keep and eye out, theres gona be lots of trees in some gallery in Oakland! I have a bunch of new ideas for more trees that should be really fun to make and for people to see! I think it will be an awesome expansion on the theme I've been working on in this series!