I'm Not Homesick, I'm Family Sick

After a long, long day helping people crank out screen printed t-shirts, I should have come home and gone straight to bed. Instead I worked on this. I set it in front of a fan to get it dry enough to scan but in fact the surface is still a little bit gummy. Deliciously gummy.

Election Coverage

I'm not a big believer in the current popular notion that everyone should exercise his or her right to vote. I think the "JUST VOTE" advertising campaigns that are so popular among the MTV-type television stations are doing a disservice to the country. Maybe the campaign should be "JUST VOTE (after doing a little bit of research about the issues and where the candidates stand on them. Think about what is important to you and to the country as a whole. Don't rely on the advice of Kanye West or Natalie Portman. And remember that not voting is a defensible option if none of the candidates meet your requirements.)" Personally I voted today because I'm aware of the imminent deaths/retirements of a handful of supreme court justices and wanted to help keep the court as politically balanced as possible.

Slumber Parties Now On Naked Tuesdays

Guess what. After spending most of the day working on some light boxes that turned out to be much harder to make than I expected, I finished this project up tonight. Its a quartet of interlocking collages on plywood panels (each 7.75" x 7.75")

Slow and Steady Part Four

Here's the latest progress on Darwin. Above you can see each state as additional layers were added. I skipped the first one since it was all yellow and incomprehensible. In the latest version, I added a screen of hand drawn lines to fill in some of the background and balance out the composition a bit. I'm not sure if it is the ultimate end of the project. Part of me likes the messiness of the loose line, while another part wants to keep everything clean and lay in some digitally created lines reflecting the vertical ones on the left of the image. I think I'll try that and then decide which I like before working up an edition.