Oct 16, 2011

I experimented today with some abstract shapes representing a sun and the waves which I inked in. It was very difficult to find balance between the extreme colors and seperating the sky from the waves. The four squares fit together to make one painting. It would be interesting to move them around and see how they look with different positions.

Still a work in progress.

Oct 9, 2011

The Make it New business card was a challenge. The sculpture represents the new man and the “thinker.” I originally designed the abstract squares to fill the entire front of the card. The designs were hand painted and then illustrated in illustrator. The design extended to the back of the card on the upper right hand corner. The color swatches were determined by the client. The red brick color did not fit the pattern.

Oct 5, 2011

Adobe Max was interesting this year. There were no exclusive techno-savvy giveaways outside of the X-Large sweater that is available on my site since it definitely doesn’t fit me.

Sep 14, 2011

My t-shirts finally are finished. The design was spray painted with a unique tape techinique which makes the design process a little unpredictable.

Aug 14, 2011

Just finished the album design for Mansoor & More. They just started up a facebook page. I designed the album cover and cd art. I’ll be embarking on the website design soon.

Forever I’ll chase his words around in my mind
as Babylon is falling down
the canyons purple and orange
as the sun rises over our eyes
and this is just a phase
a sweet embrace by the earth as it breathes dawn
over brush and broken down shack
every stride, every mile
taking us closer to something
and although the car has stopped I’m still chasing
the dawn
hoping it will comfort me, because since then I can’t sleep
Its in Babylon
a home one can never attain because it stands unclaimed

A Hunger Artist

During these last decades the interest in professional fasting has markedly diminished. It used to pay very well to stage such great performances under one’s own management, but today that is quite impossible. We live in a different world now.

The Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

We discussed the hunger artist in class today. All of Kafka’s work has a religious undertone. The hunger artist in the story is very christlike in his refusal to give in to natural physical needs, denying his hunger and connections with the outside world. The art is how the hunger sculpts his body and in denying a physical need that could potentially lead to death.