Viking Chicken Man – Surveillance Cam Performance Art
Some friends said hello at a gallery opening, and before we parted ways let me know not to leave any more egg cartons on their porch.
Book Illustration – The Graffenberg Abduction
Characters created for Michael Allen Lane’s novel, The Graffenburg Abduction.
Alternating Currency: Devaluing Tesla
Electricity created many millionaires, but the man who was born during an electric storm and pioneered the electric age wasn’t among them.
Dick
Richard Nixon 2nd Inauguration plaque (1973) – one of those rarities that goes untouched for years on the shelf of a vintage shop in Austin, TX.
Madonna with Post-it
Feminism or misogyny? This piece invites the viewer to question the difference between sexual objectification and sexual empowerment.
Hello Cthuhlu
In response to all the lame brands of casual wear, Hello Cthulhu has risen!
Virtual Models on Digital Sets
About the time I bought my first calculator watch in elementary school, I dreamed about having a machine that could translate my thoughts into pictures.
Fast forward a few decades…
The Treachery of Easter
The famous Peeps®. How people reproach me for them! And yet, could you stuff my peep down your gullet? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a peep,” I’d have been lying!
Peep Mondrian
Easter and its accouterments have grown increasingly abstract, approaching the non-representational through holiday merchandising.
Flotsam
Flotsam was an outdoor cat and disappeared one day. The thought that she might be sick or injured somewhere made me cringe, and I looked for her repeatedly over a period of several weeks. Also, I painted this image of her.
On A Pedestal
Should we do this? Should we exalt anyone beyond our reach? See them as super-heroic? Seems so plastic.
Impressionist Landscapes
There’s something about Impressionist work that captivates me. Perhaps because I was myopic to the point of legal blindness without vision correction, and Monet painted in a way that seemed to validate perceptions my own eyes produced.
Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels
When members of Congress adopted the strategy of refusing to raise the debt ceiling to gain political leverage, the idea of minting trillion dollar platinum coins to finance government was suggested. And so the Ronald Reagan One Trillion Dollar ($1,000,000,000,000) National Debt Token was born.
Documenting & Exploring Found Art
Close by on a wall made of concrete blocks I noticed the stencil repeated, so I documented the finds with my camera, then claimed the skateboard remnant for my own.
Psyche
The story of Cupid and Psyche has been analyzed from a psychological perspective – exploring archetypes, family, marriage, love, relationships – and it has been examined from the feminist perspective. With that in mind, I don’t think it’s purely a prurient subject choice…