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2009:
Venus - Mixed Media Sculpture
art deco hood ornament, resin, glitter, baking pan, rocks, moss, paper
special notes - phosphorescent
signed - bottom
completed - June 2009
Colossus - Mixed Media Sculpture
1952 Alva Museum Replica, resin, glitter, baking pan, rocks, paper
special notes - phosphorescent and irridescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 19, 2009
The Hands of Time - Mixed Media Sculpture
clock hands, watch cases, watch face, antique radio escutcheon, resin, paper
special notes - one of the watch cases contains an original poem by the artist created specially for this piece, another watch case contains the artist's signature as well as 7 plucked hairs (w/ roots), and yet another watch case contains a single hair and root plucked immediately before casting.
Poem:
Out of time
and out of spot
Whistful Knights of Camelot
Heed this knell
and take this time
To greet young lady Clementine
signed - back
completed - July 4, 2009
Eye-Ball (First Contact Through the Portal)
mixed-media sculpture
33 pre-WWII-era glass eyeballs, metal, electronics, resin
special notes - phosphorescent and irridescent, battery operated solid and flashing lights
Throughout the animal kingdom there's one thing that's scarier than all else. Something able to capture the immediate attention of any nearby animals, be they gazelle, humans, cats or giraffes. There's one thing that scares us all equally. Something so frightening that it's passed the species barrier. I'm talking, of course, about a set of eyeballs looking at you from the shadows! And, where are shadows any darker than when they're coming from the unknown?... 'As we powered up the portal for the first time, we had no idea what to expect. Personally, I wasn't expecting much of anything really. Most of us were of that ilk. Just another day in the lab, same as any other. But, we sure as hell never expected the eye-ball! It appeared through the roiling blue plasma for 3.7 seconds, and then it was gone! Hardly even time to really register what was happening. That's all it took. 3.7 seconds for your heart to jump completely out of your throat. It was the most important 3.7 seconds in human history, and even if you were there, you could have missed it. Those that saw it were like deer in headlights.... That was first contact...'
signed - bottom
completed - 9:09:09am on Sept. 09, 2009 (09:09:09 - 09/09/09)
The Televisions Are Watching
group of mixed media sculptures
modeling clay, world war era human glass eyeballs, metal, glass, wood, wire, electronics, etc...
special notes - several pieces have LEDs behind the eyes that make them blink and glow
signed - several are stamped RDB
completed - ongoing series
Malebox
mixed media sculpture
light, sex toy, lettering
signed - back?
completed - July 16, 2009
To This Day, Geologists are Baffled by the Appropriately Titled Bright Red Formation Demarcating the Boundary Layer Between the Cambrian and the Ordivician Eras in the Sedimentary Rock Strata of the Southwestern Escarpment
mixed media sculpture
4 pieces (resin and stone cylinder, resin and stone ring, round mirror, battery pack & LED)
river rock, paint, resin
special notes - base light flashes multi-coloured with fresh batteries, turns to red flashing as depleted
signed - bottom
completed - July 9, 2009
Homo Sapiens ca. 2500AD
mixed media sculpture
modeling clay, world war era human glass eyes, metal, paint, rotating display, watch cases
special notes - rotates and lights up, phosphorescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 7, 2009
Last Grasp of the Edmund Fitzgerald
mixed media sculpture
resin, flan pan, glitter, santos hand, acrylic and paper
special notes - phosphorescent and irridescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 12, 2009
exhibited - CONNECT: Our Community, Our Art, Our Show (juried exhibition, Feb. - Mar. 2010, Vancouver, BC, coinciding with the Olympics)
Last Grasp of the Andrea Doria
mixed media sculpture
resin, metal, santos hand, paper
special notes - phosphorescent and irridescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 18, 2009
Last Grasp of the SS Koombana
mixed media sculpture
resin, metal, santos hand, paper
special notes - phosphorescent and irridescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 18, 2009
Wunderwood - The Future's Typewriter Today!...
mixed-media sculpture
antique typewriter, case, LEDs, motors, found objects, LCD monitors, audio/video
special notes - contains the unpublished short-story 'Dig,' written solely for this piece by the artist
signed by hand & stamped
completed - June 2009
Text on the sheet of paper in the typewriter (Underwood1913 font):
Dig... Dig... I must dig....
Deep down. Deep, deep down....
My subconscious is telling me to dig. Deeper. You must dig NOW.
Intellectually, I know this is just evolution speaking to me from beyond the ether. I know that. If I had lived a hundred days ago, I wouldn't have been able to own two houses on opposite sides of the planet. I wouldn't have been able to fly past the darkness and into the light. The technology just didn't exist back then. Sure, they had boats, primitive boats. But it was just way to dangerous to follow the sun. A fool's errand. Only a few people ever made it all the way around the planet. But, they never made a life out of it. An existence. No, if I was born a hundred days ago, I would have had to dig. Dig deep.
So, that's what you did. As the sun started getting low on the horizon, you'd dig and you'd dig and you'd dig. Deeper. Deeper. Endlessly digging. Because the only thing that keeps you alive while you sleep the deep sleep is what little warmth the planet provides way down in its depths. Wondrous, loving warmth. Like a giant womb...
But, now we have planes, and dirigibles and modern transportation systems. The technology to finally free ourselves from the eternal night. We no longer have to fear the darkness, the abominable cold. Some of us live on two sides of the planet. When the sun finally sets on home A - time to move on to home B, where the sun is just rising. Others live like Gypsies - but on a planetary scale - always moving along with the sun as it inches it's way east. We no longer require the deep sleep, the digging. But, tell that to my genes. Every time we start nearing sunset, I still get that urge to dig. Powerful. Instinctual. Like you're fixing for the most powerful of drugs. Every cell in your body begging - screaming - for you to dig. Dig or die. Dig or die.
Dig. Dig deeper. Dig. Dig.
You must dig deeper. Get to the warmth. You must sleep....
But, first you must dig...
Notes:
1. This sculpture can be entirely run off of three AA batteries (the batteries built into the video displays are rechargable with the included USB wall plug). Alternately, this piece can be entirely run off of your regular wall-sockets by attaching the included AC adaptor (and using the USB/AC cables for the monitors).
2. Customize it! Make it personal to you! Using the included USB cable, and connecting the video displays to your Windows computer, the purchaser can upload up to 58 of their own .jpg digital images into each of the three sets video monitors (be sure to save the originals though!) and use this very sculpture as the most amazing digital picture frame in the world! No additional software or equipment required!
The Day They Shot Old Yeller
mixed media sculpture
resin, river rocks, paint, metal
signed - back of head
completed - July 17, 2009
Breaking Through
mixed media sculpture
TMS 'elation' casting, resin, paint
special notes - irridescent and phosphorescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 27, 2009
Breaking The Surface
mixed media sculpture
TMS 'elation' casting, resin, paint, dice
special notes - irridescent and phosphorescent
signed - bottom, embedded initials rear
completed - July 27, 2009
A Small Business Lunch
mixed media sculpture
metal, resin, modeling clay, paint, 1865 gold coin, early 1900's silver coins, glass, crystal, paper, etc...
4 pieces (martini, manhattan, scotch rocks, serving tray)
signed - bottom?
completed - Aug. 2, 2009
Strangers
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
36" by 48"
signed - front and back
completed - Sept. 18, 2009 at 12pm
Personally, I Prefer the View From Cloud 8...
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
36" by 48"
signed - front and back
completed - Sept 20, 2009 at 7:37pm
The Tracks
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
36" by 60"
signed - front and back
completed - Sept 23, 2009 at 10:30pm
special notes - original poem on back (mile after mile/day after day/long live the men/of the F.T.R.A.)
Search Party
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
48" by 72"
signed - front and back
completed - Sept. 29, 2009
The Ridge
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
36" by 48" (horizontal)
signed - front and back
completed - Oct. 2, 2009
Purple Moon
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
48" by 48"
signed - front and back
completed - Oct. 3, 2009
Decay #1 and 2
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
each 24" by 24"
signed - front and back
completed - Oct. 11, 2009
Prairie Fire
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition cradled board
24" by 36"
signed - front and back
completed - Oct. 12, 2009
Solitude
acrylic on studio canvas
three pieces - 8" by 24" each
signed - back
completed - Oct. 21, 2009
Reflections
acrylic on studio canvas
three pieces - 8" by 24" each
signed - back
completed - Oct. 22, 2009
EXISTENTIAL ART (is this it?...)
- Advertising Art series (#1)
acrylic and spray enamel on studio canvas
24" by 24"
signed - front and back
permanent UV varnish
completed - Nov. 5, 2009
NEO-PLASTIC ART ('cause the plasticists were fucking morons!)
- Advertising Art series (#2)
24" by 24"
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
signed - front and back
completed - Nov. 5, 2009
Crazy 8's
48" by 48" (64 six inch square pieces mounted on foamboard)
acrylic, irridescent, phosphorescent and mixed media on canvas, board, cradled panel, panel, cardboard and artist's board.
signed - front and back
completed - Nov. 5, 2009
GREEN ART (It's Environmentally Friendly-ish!)
- Advertising Art series (#3)
24" by 24"
gesso, phosphorescent and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
signed - front and back
permanent UV varnish
completed - Nov. 5, 2009
MINIMALIST ART
- Advertising Art series (#4)
3" by 3"
acrylic and spray enamel on miniature canvas
signed - front (initial) and back
permanent UV varnish
completed - Nov. 5, 2009
TONAL ART (had better not take that tone with me!)
- Advertising Art series (#5)
24" by 24"
spray enamel and mixed media on over-sized canvas
signed - front and back
permanent UV varnish
completed - Nov. 6, 2009
PLUS-SIZED ART (cause fat canvas wants to look pretty too!!!)
- Advertising Art series (#6)
24" by 24"
gesso, spray enamel and glitter on thick canvas
signed - front and back
permanent UV varnish
completed - Nov. 6, 2009
Venus - Mixed Media Sculpture
art deco hood ornament, resin, glitter, baking pan, rocks, moss, paper
special notes - phosphorescent
signed - bottom
completed - June 2009
Colossus - Mixed Media Sculpture
1952 Alva Museum Replica, resin, glitter, baking pan, rocks, paper
special notes - phosphorescent and irridescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 19, 2009
The Hands of Time - Mixed Media Sculpture
clock hands, watch cases, watch face, antique radio escutcheon, resin, paper
special notes - one of the watch cases contains an original poem by the artist created specially for this piece, another watch case contains the artist's signature as well as 7 plucked hairs (w/ roots), and yet another watch case contains a single hair and root plucked immediately before casting.
Poem:
Out of time
and out of spot
Whistful Knights of Camelot
Heed this knell
and take this time
To greet young lady Clementine
signed - back
completed - July 4, 2009
Eye-Ball (First Contact Through the Portal)
mixed-media sculpture
33 pre-WWII-era glass eyeballs, metal, electronics, resin
special notes - phosphorescent and irridescent, battery operated solid and flashing lights
Throughout the animal kingdom there's one thing that's scarier than all else. Something able to capture the immediate attention of any nearby animals, be they gazelle, humans, cats or giraffes. There's one thing that scares us all equally. Something so frightening that it's passed the species barrier. I'm talking, of course, about a set of eyeballs looking at you from the shadows! And, where are shadows any darker than when they're coming from the unknown?... 'As we powered up the portal for the first time, we had no idea what to expect. Personally, I wasn't expecting much of anything really. Most of us were of that ilk. Just another day in the lab, same as any other. But, we sure as hell never expected the eye-ball! It appeared through the roiling blue plasma for 3.7 seconds, and then it was gone! Hardly even time to really register what was happening. That's all it took. 3.7 seconds for your heart to jump completely out of your throat. It was the most important 3.7 seconds in human history, and even if you were there, you could have missed it. Those that saw it were like deer in headlights.... That was first contact...'
signed - bottom
completed - 9:09:09am on Sept. 09, 2009 (09:09:09 - 09/09/09)
The Televisions Are Watching
group of mixed media sculptures
modeling clay, world war era human glass eyeballs, metal, glass, wood, wire, electronics, etc...
special notes - several pieces have LEDs behind the eyes that make them blink and glow
signed - several are stamped RDB
completed - ongoing series
Malebox
mixed media sculpture
light, sex toy, lettering
signed - back?
completed - July 16, 2009
To This Day, Geologists are Baffled by the Appropriately Titled Bright Red Formation Demarcating the Boundary Layer Between the Cambrian and the Ordivician Eras in the Sedimentary Rock Strata of the Southwestern Escarpment
mixed media sculpture
4 pieces (resin and stone cylinder, resin and stone ring, round mirror, battery pack & LED)
river rock, paint, resin
special notes - base light flashes multi-coloured with fresh batteries, turns to red flashing as depleted
signed - bottom
completed - July 9, 2009
Homo Sapiens ca. 2500AD
mixed media sculpture
modeling clay, world war era human glass eyes, metal, paint, rotating display, watch cases
special notes - rotates and lights up, phosphorescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 7, 2009
Last Grasp of the Edmund Fitzgerald
mixed media sculpture
resin, flan pan, glitter, santos hand, acrylic and paper
special notes - phosphorescent and irridescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 12, 2009
exhibited - CONNECT: Our Community, Our Art, Our Show (juried exhibition, Feb. - Mar. 2010, Vancouver, BC, coinciding with the Olympics)
Last Grasp of the Andrea Doria
mixed media sculpture
resin, metal, santos hand, paper
special notes - phosphorescent and irridescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 18, 2009
Last Grasp of the SS Koombana
mixed media sculpture
resin, metal, santos hand, paper
special notes - phosphorescent and irridescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 18, 2009
Wunderwood - The Future's Typewriter Today!...
mixed-media sculpture
antique typewriter, case, LEDs, motors, found objects, LCD monitors, audio/video
special notes - contains the unpublished short-story 'Dig,' written solely for this piece by the artist
signed by hand & stamped
completed - June 2009
Text on the sheet of paper in the typewriter (Underwood1913 font):
Dig... Dig... I must dig....
Deep down. Deep, deep down....
My subconscious is telling me to dig. Deeper. You must dig NOW.
Intellectually, I know this is just evolution speaking to me from beyond the ether. I know that. If I had lived a hundred days ago, I wouldn't have been able to own two houses on opposite sides of the planet. I wouldn't have been able to fly past the darkness and into the light. The technology just didn't exist back then. Sure, they had boats, primitive boats. But it was just way to dangerous to follow the sun. A fool's errand. Only a few people ever made it all the way around the planet. But, they never made a life out of it. An existence. No, if I was born a hundred days ago, I would have had to dig. Dig deep.
So, that's what you did. As the sun started getting low on the horizon, you'd dig and you'd dig and you'd dig. Deeper. Deeper. Endlessly digging. Because the only thing that keeps you alive while you sleep the deep sleep is what little warmth the planet provides way down in its depths. Wondrous, loving warmth. Like a giant womb...
But, now we have planes, and dirigibles and modern transportation systems. The technology to finally free ourselves from the eternal night. We no longer have to fear the darkness, the abominable cold. Some of us live on two sides of the planet. When the sun finally sets on home A - time to move on to home B, where the sun is just rising. Others live like Gypsies - but on a planetary scale - always moving along with the sun as it inches it's way east. We no longer require the deep sleep, the digging. But, tell that to my genes. Every time we start nearing sunset, I still get that urge to dig. Powerful. Instinctual. Like you're fixing for the most powerful of drugs. Every cell in your body begging - screaming - for you to dig. Dig or die. Dig or die.
Dig. Dig deeper. Dig. Dig.
You must dig deeper. Get to the warmth. You must sleep....
But, first you must dig...
Notes:
1. This sculpture can be entirely run off of three AA batteries (the batteries built into the video displays are rechargable with the included USB wall plug). Alternately, this piece can be entirely run off of your regular wall-sockets by attaching the included AC adaptor (and using the USB/AC cables for the monitors).
2. Customize it! Make it personal to you! Using the included USB cable, and connecting the video displays to your Windows computer, the purchaser can upload up to 58 of their own .jpg digital images into each of the three sets video monitors (be sure to save the originals though!) and use this very sculpture as the most amazing digital picture frame in the world! No additional software or equipment required!
The Day They Shot Old Yeller
mixed media sculpture
resin, river rocks, paint, metal
signed - back of head
completed - July 17, 2009
Breaking Through
mixed media sculpture
TMS 'elation' casting, resin, paint
special notes - irridescent and phosphorescent
signed - bottom
completed - July 27, 2009
Breaking The Surface
mixed media sculpture
TMS 'elation' casting, resin, paint, dice
special notes - irridescent and phosphorescent
signed - bottom, embedded initials rear
completed - July 27, 2009
A Small Business Lunch
mixed media sculpture
metal, resin, modeling clay, paint, 1865 gold coin, early 1900's silver coins, glass, crystal, paper, etc...
4 pieces (martini, manhattan, scotch rocks, serving tray)
signed - bottom?
completed - Aug. 2, 2009
Strangers
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
36" by 48"
signed - front and back
completed - Sept. 18, 2009 at 12pm
Personally, I Prefer the View From Cloud 8...
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
36" by 48"
signed - front and back
completed - Sept 20, 2009 at 7:37pm
The Tracks
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
36" by 60"
signed - front and back
completed - Sept 23, 2009 at 10:30pm
special notes - original poem on back (mile after mile/day after day/long live the men/of the F.T.R.A.)
Search Party
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
48" by 72"
signed - front and back
completed - Sept. 29, 2009
The Ridge
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
36" by 48" (horizontal)
signed - front and back
completed - Oct. 2, 2009
Purple Moon
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
48" by 48"
signed - front and back
completed - Oct. 3, 2009
Decay #1 and 2
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
each 24" by 24"
signed - front and back
completed - Oct. 11, 2009
Prairie Fire
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition cradled board
24" by 36"
signed - front and back
completed - Oct. 12, 2009
Solitude
acrylic on studio canvas
three pieces - 8" by 24" each
signed - back
completed - Oct. 21, 2009
Reflections
acrylic on studio canvas
three pieces - 8" by 24" each
signed - back
completed - Oct. 22, 2009
EXISTENTIAL ART (is this it?...)
- Advertising Art series (#1)
acrylic and spray enamel on studio canvas
24" by 24"
signed - front and back
permanent UV varnish
completed - Nov. 5, 2009
NEO-PLASTIC ART ('cause the plasticists were fucking morons!)
- Advertising Art series (#2)
24" by 24"
acrylic and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
signed - front and back
completed - Nov. 5, 2009
Crazy 8's
48" by 48" (64 six inch square pieces mounted on foamboard)
acrylic, irridescent, phosphorescent and mixed media on canvas, board, cradled panel, panel, cardboard and artist's board.
signed - front and back
completed - Nov. 5, 2009
GREEN ART (It's Environmentally Friendly-ish!)
- Advertising Art series (#3)
24" by 24"
gesso, phosphorescent and spray enamel on exhibition canvas
signed - front and back
permanent UV varnish
completed - Nov. 5, 2009
MINIMALIST ART
- Advertising Art series (#4)
3" by 3"
acrylic and spray enamel on miniature canvas
signed - front (initial) and back
permanent UV varnish
completed - Nov. 5, 2009
TONAL ART (had better not take that tone with me!)
- Advertising Art series (#5)
24" by 24"
spray enamel and mixed media on over-sized canvas
signed - front and back
permanent UV varnish
completed - Nov. 6, 2009
PLUS-SIZED ART (cause fat canvas wants to look pretty too!!!)
- Advertising Art series (#6)
24" by 24"
gesso, spray enamel and glitter on thick canvas
signed - front and back
permanent UV varnish
completed - Nov. 6, 2009