cliffdwelling

A Love Letter For You

2010-04-19T06:55:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Ashley and I took a ride on the Market-Frankford line to check out a series of murals called "A Love Letter For You" by artist Steve Powers, aka ESPO (Exterior Surface Painting Outreach).

30 / 60 / 90 / Oxidize

2010-04-13T17:37:00.000-07:00

My current work may be at a standstill, but at least my old work is aging well.

Upular

2009-12-26T07:33:00.000-08:00

by video remix artist Pogo. "composed using chords, bass notes, and vocal samples from the Disney Pixar film UP." way too cool.

Destroyer of Worlds

2009-09-30T12:33:00.000-07:00

iSHiVU

Operable Ivy

2009-09-28T13:07:00.000-07:00

Collage

2009-09-10T17:56:00.000-07:00

Composed of cut outs from resized photocopies of an exploded axon of a previous work.

I.O.C.tavia

2009-08-07T18:10:00.000-07:00

Conceptual diagram for an Intergalactic Occupancy Construct inspired by the fictional city of Octavia from Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities." Part of the assignment was to include animals in addition to humans as occupants. The birds' ability to fly serves as a juxtaposition to the humans' dependence on the precarious web of walkways. The rhinos made it in last minute, just as a homage to Rhino, the rendering program used to design it.

Tattoo?

2009-07-24T20:14:00.001-07:00

Olafur Eliasson

2009-07-18T13:06:00.000-07:00

I've recently come to the belief that the most powerful art is that which plays with the viewer's experience of reality. Case in point, Olafur Eliasson.

More Impossibility

2009-06-24T13:02:00.000-07:00

(approximately 36" x 84")

For my final drawing project with Clayton Merrell I wanted to see how far I could push the development of space using building blocks that are impossible in 3 dimensions. Although I pleased with how it turned out, as always there's definitely a lot of room for improvement. In the next iteration I would further push the line weight differentiation, and possibly consider gravity in the arrangement of the cubes.

Good Luck At The Gunfight

2009-06-23T15:01:00.000-07:00

Good Luck At The Gunfight is a San Francisco based trio who is surprisingly aptly named. Their electronic brand of music has an apprehensive determination about it that leaves the listener ready to face anything. Download their songs for free here.

Ensōs

2009-06-12T06:20:00.000-07:00

I recently became interested in the ensō, the Japanese word for circle. In Japanese calligraphy, the depiction of an ensō is a meditative practice in which the mind is free to let the spirit create. As a symbol of enlightenment, Zen Buddhists believe the artist's character is exposed in their depiction of the ensō.

For my drawing class I decided to continue with the generative form/illusions theme and use ensōs as a base component. Initially I intended to transform each ensō into an impossible circle like this, however I eventually decided to only hint towards some impossibility.

Jack Peñate: Tonight's Today

2009-04-27T18:52:00.000-07:00

via booooooom

2009-04-25T23:43:00.001-07:00

Process Drawing

2009-04-22T13:29:00.000-07:00

Materials = Needle + Thread + Nut (as in nuts and bolts) + Corrugated Plastic

Process = Drop the nut to randomly determine where to sew the thread. Flip to opposite side. Repeat.

Impossible Cubes

2009-04-13T22:42:00.000-07:00

Preliminary sketch for my final drawing project

Junior Boys: Parallel Lines

2009-04-11T22:19:00.000-07:00

The Extra Dimensions of Spacetime

2009-03-25T14:31:00.000-07:00

The inspiration for my final Welding project with artist/architect Dee Briggs was a theoretical form called a Calabi-Yau Manifold, which according to the superstring theory represents spacetime in 6 dimensions. Though I admittedly do not really understand the concept, let alone the mathematics, what interested me the most about the form was challenge of representing 6 dimensions in a 3 dimensional world. To accomplish this, I developed an equilateral triangle with curved sides as a base component, and interlocked 6 of these one by one by to flesh out the space of the sculpture. I think of it as an analog generative form.