postcards

My illustration professor from UDel, Dave Brinley, gave everyone in his senior class a hand full of blank, pre-stamped and addressed postcards when we graduated. The first one I sent to him after I got back from a road trip. I swear I saw a sea lion swimming in the ocean in Florida.

The second was inspired by a trip I took this month to Washington state. (sketch in the last post).

Fall sketches

Farmer McCutcheon

Olympic National Park. Exploring patterns, geometric shapes. While I was in Seattle I saw some beautiful aboriginal Australian and American Indian work at the art museum. I was inspired by their consistant visual language translating nature.

Working on my language.

impressions

the second to last page of my sketchbook has been ripped out. someone must have borrowed a sheet. funny thing is, i can see the impression of what they wrote on the last page:

i am so in love with you ....(too faint to make out)...you....but....too shy..............love, your secret admirer

Butteryfly emerges from the Science Center

What more can I say?

Hey nice glowing embryo.

They were really asking for it, having the museum-goers to respond to the question: What are you afraid of. And Abby thought Brittany and I were opening a can of worms with the Wish Fulfillment Machine. Yes...I had to steal a few.

It's true. This is how they interpret cell division. I was surprised overall by how many abstract and beautiful ways they expressed science.

These the Heavens of (Abby's) Brain

Emily and Tom's shadows goofing around without them during the Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival. 

Last weekend, Emily and Brittany and I assisted Abby with her piece, These the Heavens of my Brain. Headlamps, glowing letters, suitcases, and a fishing pole. Photos and video to come. 

Some landscapes in Manhattan. 

Closing

Just a couple pictures from the abandon ship closing reception. Onto funnel #3 by this time. 

Irrigating

For the last few days I've been making a site-specific installation for the Abandon Ship Exhibition which opened at the Current Gallery in Baltimore last night. I was pretty excited to be part of it. 

I got a studio space at current a couple weeks ago so I would get out of my house and feel inspired to make work. I wanted to find out what was going on in Baltimore and be a part of it. But...the space is being torn down in August so it was kind of funny that I was trying to establish myself there. That's more or less what the piece is about.