some drawings and etchings of cock fights, whirly gigs, plaster horses and rides

Ariel images of carnivals and collagraph chine colle

A long spell since my last blog...

satellite images of carnivls, ferris wheel and amusement parks, courtesy of Google Maps... proving to be a very addictive search mechanism...interesting sense of 'macro-micro' emerging from 'flattened' images
Vienna
ditto
Luna Park, Melbourne
ditto
san diego
Kasai , Japan
Irving California
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Canobe, Maryland


more to come...plan on incorperating these into paintings as 'flattened space'...looking for abandoned theme park in Chernobyl

broken windows caulked with tar on the roof of Arbor Vitae...

today, working on some drypoints inspired by footage of a human gyroscope from the 20's

some studies for paintings, mono-prints and etchings for 'motley space'













so-dubbed 'crate and barrel' drawings...exploring appeal of fiber as a two dimensional medium












some collages pertaining to motley by subjecting 'characters' to uncomfortable situations...these refer to issues both in an iconoclastic arena and a voyeuristic comedy, I.e. vaudeville...combining figures, built structures, microscopic images etc.






















some paintings done over the summer exploring architectural spaces, spatial distortion, implied geometry and color/ collage application