painting
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Stamping Meaning into My Work
I’ve always liked the little red stamps found in Asian paintings and I’ve wanted to incorporate something similar into my own artwork. In Japanese and Chinese paintings the seals often identify the artist, owners, collectors, and/or other individuals associated with the artwork over time. For my own work, I wanted to use African symbols that…
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Transformation
For an artist, or an artist of sorts, the transformation of the intangible creations of the imagination into concrete forms of beauty, expressions of emotion, or apparatuses of utility, brings meaning to existence. I am perpetually excited by the creative process required to bring an idea to life, for there is challenge in doing so,…
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Layer After Layer
It’s one thing to make a frame and another thing entirely to paint one. Talk about a lesson in patience. Without climate control, a person is at the mercy of mother nature and she seems rarely willing to offer ideal conditions for painting. The winter has been far too cold to paint and though spring…
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A Woodworker of Sorts?
It’s a wonderful thing to be curious. So many of life’s greatest pursuits begin with curiosity. It is the force from which the greatest questions of life emerge: Who am I? What is the purpose of life? What is the nature of space and time? What is true love? To live your curiosity is to…
Drawing for Change 