How to do things

How to Survive Economic Sanctions
1. Aquire Boats
2. Rename all your boats
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!!

How to Become President
1. Wear a boot on your head
2. Sprinkle fairy dust on your opposition until they turn gay
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!!

I am the Star but you are the Heavens

The black death

Western Kansas from car

My Ears Wax and Wane like the Moon

Explosion

So thats what these kids call it these days.

River Rapids

The Siren

 The Siren

The Inventor

The parachute trooper

Trains cars and aquamoebas

I have always really like art work that has the appearance of a doodle, but is of a higher quality that mindless scribes. This is what I strive for in the art work I do during class. This fish picture is a wonderful example of artwork that I used to admire and now I am capable of doing. Doodles carry such a profound degree of instability in them. The picture looks like madness, yet at the same time, one can see the logical connection between all the images. Separate but equal is best together.

What ever happened during math class that day wasn't very important, I hope

Rinse and Repeat

Repetition. A brilliant process for creating interesting art. There is something magical about repeating a powerful image over and over again until a page is filled. People have an appreciation for works that clearly have had a great deal of time spent on them. The Hands is an example of my interest in such a concept.

                Repetitive works have a number of common features. Generally speaking the inspiration for a regressive picture comes from an obsession with an iconic image. Hands, soupcans, beetles, mickey-mouse, anything. With The hands, I was fond of them because the design that I used was the first design for hands that I like. For novice artists, hands are generally frustrating to do. No matter what it is, if an artist becomes fond of an image they may try to create a regressive picture with it. Typically, that image has to be a powerful to both fascinate the viewer and draw the interest of the artist. In The Hands, all of them are reaching out to one another. This could be considered symbolic for both desperation, -or- friendship. Finally images associated with repetition are rarely detailed. For obvious reasons it is frustrating to repeat a complex image over and over again. The simple icons become powerful when repeated in great number. That is makes up the complexity of the image instead of detail often desired by traditional art.

                To be fair repetition is a fairly often used art technique but I feel like it never losses it’s intrigue. The idea was in vogue during the 60s with Andy Warhol and his contemporary Pop Artists. They experimented with repetition using Campbell’s soup cans, coke bottles, and other popular cultural items. The idea however can be expanded to any new cultural symbols that emerge, for example the Facebook logo could be incorporated into art today. I’m not saying that hands are somehow important cultural symbols but rather making the case for repetition in the modern day.