Fun with etching, sewing and cutting… updates

I have been working hard. Im sorry that its been a while since the last post.. Right now I am revisiting printmaking, which has been a load of work but fun, and getting things together for the big review in 2 weeks. New stuff, enjoy!

My first stab back at printmaking…

Stage one of my copper plates…etching remnants of the journey series.

For midterm I printed the first two panels of the journey series and presented them on sheets together.

I also took two of the squares from the vinyl drawings and had them enlarged then printed those 20″x20″.

I would really like to cute out each of the squares, mount, and display them like this:

I have machine sewn the path of travel with red thread through each of them. They are floating about an inch off the wall, on a wood block. Everyone else wanted them all together so I mocked some up to get the idea. The verdict is still out…

New and Blue

The Journey series is a project with a beginning and an end. It is a memory of a migration, an uprooting and adventure from coast to coast. When I moved to Georgia I drove my car, with all my possessions within 3000 miles from California. These are the trips you never forget. I have reproduced the map tracing point A home (Thousand Oaks, CA) to point B new home (Savannah, GA). This journey has been separated into 4 ½ in. squares each representing 15 minutes of driving. I am revisiting the journey in real time by allowing myself 15 to draw each square map onto a grid of vinyl. The purpose is to eventually expose this negative in the cyanotype process and present the move in a linear way… I hope you enjoy seeing the project in progress.

I have half of the squares drawn out and just sun printed them yesterday…. excited for installation when they are all done!

details:

Just keep working…

After I completed drawings of all 50 states (although Nebraska is MIA)… I have assigned myself another daunting project. After much input I have divined that my maps need to be more personal.I am going to track the great distance between my home in California and my home in Georgia by retracing the map of my journey of a road trip that I took when I moved east. The almost 40 hours of driving has been broken down into 4 1/2 in squares that represent the amount of road driven in 15 min. I am retracing each one in real time by spending 15 min drawing each. I have laid them all out on my studio wall in a grid with vinyl over which I am drawing on. 140 squares later I will use the vinyl panels to make sunprints of each and install in a singular row wrapping a room. It should be very powerful.This is the first step… dont mind the mess on my walls, it shows a history of messing painting in that space.

midterm installation

I have been working on the United States…all 50 of them. Its taken some time but i have each state individually represented and I put them up together in an installation recently.

They filled the room… More detailed photos of each one to follow. These pen and ink paintings are done on vellum so that they also double as negatives for cyanotypes later.

Also working on flowin’ the Mississippi. Large scale cyano prints!

A new quarter and past updates.

This week marks the beginning of yet another new quarter at SCAD. Of to a good start I think. I am still working with the cyanotypes. I hope to work in some more layers in the more recent work now. Here is what I have done so far:

This is what the paper looks like before it hits the sun..sort of a greenish grey color. I am experimenting with treating the paper in patterns like the handprint one here to later sun print over.

Just drew this today to be printed as soon as the sun comes out. It is a geography of the world’s continents in a bubble map. Each circle’s size is in relation to my knowledge, understanding and personal perception of a place.

I did this over the break at home. I am playing with the significance of the Mississippi River. I currently have a 15ft map of it taped together in my dining room. It is a very long river…

I had a studio visit with Steven Yazzie today. It was very positive. He really likes the way my work is going and had some good suggestions. Check out what he is up to in Arizona.

graduate drawing

Sorry I haven’t posted for some time. Life gets busy and internet updates take a back seat sometimes.

The Fall quarter is underway and there is more work to do than ever.

The first project due for my grad drawing class was a reinterpretation of the artwork of everyone else from the class. 9 works in all. It was a challenge but here are a few.

Altered Maps, in layers

I have also been tracing maps and changing streets ton insert a message, memory or thought of the place.

Here they are overlapped a bit.