Category Archives: Art

New Installation, May 4, Santa Fe Springs, The Seaside Fleet

I’ll be presenting a new installation at Santa Fe Springs Art Fest on Friday May 4th. “The Seaside Fleet” will be on view at at the Clarke Estate from 3-11pm. The Clarke Estate is a 60 acre property designed and … Continue reading

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Making Zines is Important

On twitter today it seemed like everyone I follow was talking about making zines (or ‘zines short for fanzine or magazine depending how you feel about it). I really like reading and buying zines. I love writing for The Atomic … Continue reading

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Maps to Adventure: You Are Swept Into Eternity

If you were a kid in a Western country in the 1980s who was at all interested in reading, chances are your parents and teachers tried to encourage you with Choose Your Own Adventure paperbacks. Atlas Obscura has a great article … Continue reading

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Home by the Sea (collage gif)

  I was working on a lot of bits and pieces of different collages these past couple weeks, and this made it to the finish line first. There’ll be a printed version of it someday, without the figures dancing in … Continue reading

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Three Recent Collages, the end of 2016

Haven’t posted any collage in a while, but I worked on these three piece, on-and-off for a bit. I bought a handful of random magazines from my local library, and some scrap cloth, to work in the traditional way. The … Continue reading

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What Makes Nighthawks Important

It is unimportant that Nighthawks is based on a real place. What is special about it, is that we know how what those people are feeling.

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Collages: Cloudy Eye, and Collage with 3 Men and a House Boat

Two more collages. One I enjoy, another not so much. Lets start with the lesser… I wanted to do some pieces not using any comic book elements, so I started the one above using old maps on a black background. The … Continue reading

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