Smoke No. 6
24"x24", acrylic, stencil on panel. #2012 #angles #layered $200
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13x17 inches, acrylic on paper. #2015 #layered $250 The piece shares the same title with one of my songs from the late 90s: Melange by Lee Barry
Interesting Quotes
11"x12" acrylic on paper. Another in the series using typographical markings ( Achtung ), in this case, quotes. #2014 #layered
War Wind (1994)
30 years on... Horrid AI generations. AI does not do a 12/8 well 1 2 3 4 A "Sting-sh" song inspired by an article in the Chicago Tribune in 1994 about a young couple in Sarajevo who were shot dead as they attempted to flee the city. (Apparently, Frontline subsequently made a documentary about it, which I was unaware of). War Wind (1995 version) With Strings Lyrics: In the unsettling mist of this hillside town Two hearts had met as one Enemies in the eyes of all In this war that's never won In a letter to her mother She cited her displeasure They had made up their minds To seek to find their treasure together Together they ran through the empty streets Through the rain of fire Flee from hell to the gates of the temple of their desire Now they lay side by side In this lonely land of doom Six days dead they lie in wait For the rights to dig their tomb Again they lay side by side In the only land of calm While mourners ...
Words Face the Wall
16.25 x 22.25, acrylic on paper $300 A study for another work in my text-art series, now appropriated as an homage to the sometimes droll conceptual work of the late John Baldessari. I am using the following color classification, loosely based on the sequences of color in the color spectrum: A: Red C: Red D: Orange E: Orange F: Yellow H: Yellow L: Green O: Green R: Blue S: Blue T: Blue W: White In terms of generativity, you could work with the hash value of the string "Words Face The Wall" (DC28A134DEFC289CA6B01B3ACA6D162D). The unique values in the string are: 0 1 2 3 4 6 8 9 A B C D E F ...on which various attributes can be assigned, such as color, material, etc, and it need not be text-based. This is the process I used in my Hash Art series. This is no different from using scales or other rules or rudiments in music, and a good example of borrowing a system from another domain as a metaphorical framework. Initially, the work was inspi...