Surrealist Works
Started on February 8th, 2022
Completed work and artwork progression will be updated and documented here as the body progresses.
There are no words
Dimensions Unknown
Graphite and Willowstick on a bedsheet
Leaving the cocoon
Dimensions unknown
Graphite and crayon on a bedsheet
Ascend, 2022
65 x 83 inches
pencil and watercolour on cloth
dear diary,
60 by 77 inches
graphite, acrylic, and wax crayon on canvas
Completed on May 14, 2022
Time Elapsed: 120 days
Mom’s Starry Night
193.5 by 77.5 inches
acrylic paint, craft paint, wall paint, 3d fabric paint, wax crayons, oil pastels, pencil, willow stick + charcoal, glaze medium, mod podge, avocado dye (made from boiling avocado pits), on mom's bedsheets (shh!)
Completed on March 24th, 2022
Time Elapsed : 51 days
Artwork talk - Mom’s Starry Night [0:54]
Birth
47.5 by 80.5 inches
watercolour on canvas
Lita, 2022
77 by 60 inches
Wax crayon, graphite, acrylic, & watercolour on canvas
Universe
57.5 by 72 inches
sharpie, dye, and acrylic glazing medium on bedsheet
Completed on May 8th, 2022
Time Elasped: 38 days
Zelda’s Lullaby
Dimensions Unknown
willow stick, charcoal, pencil crayon, and graphite on bedsheet
Rainfall
57.5 by 72 inches
graphite, dye, and watercolour on bedsheet
Completed on May 15th, 2022
Time Elapsed: 4 days
Art Progression
April 5, 2022
What I think about most is when to stop a piece so that depictions within my abstractions settle at a place that is relative for the collective mind to observe.
Early on I see the depictions I want to draw out of the mark-making. There are many beautiful moments within a piece's development that I could conclude at. However, these moments would gear towards pure abstraction. While I love pure abstraction, the work I'm making is not to arrive at these points.
The art is knowing when to make the mark and when to leave space. A bedsheet is unforgiving. the marks cannot easily be covered or erased. Acknowledging-ly, a bit 'ineffective' as a medium, however, I'm interested in the defect. So then the art becomes knowing how to react and just the same how to let go.
Through my process, I cannot be attached to the final outcome. Sometimes one mark or choice of colour changes the feel of the piece completely. If I reach toward what I think the piece 'needs to be' then I'll be reacting to the past of the piece and not the visual present.
I'm missing my simple illustrations from late 2017. Instead of simplifying the detail, what if I could amp the detail and break out to 'the other side'. If I complexify a visual without maintaining a point then the visual information simplifies.
The question I think about is to what extent can automatism be a backdoor to revealing/further understanding the neural network? Any scientists that would like to partner to explore this question please feel free to contact me via my submission form.
April 3, 2022
Piece started April 1, 2022
Sharpie on Paper has been a breakthrough. I am now able to describe what I could not with the limitations of the pencil. March 11, 2022
Mom’s Starry Night
February 24, 2022
March 5, 2022
Close-up
March 5, 2022
Collaborated on this piece with my pal who drew a stickman. February 24, 2022
February 18, 2022
February 12th, 2022 1:15 PM
February 12, 2022 4:47 PM
Zelda’s Lullaby
February 9th, 2022 at 12:41 PM
February 8th, 2022 10:02 PM
February 8th, 2022 7:41 PM