Archive for February, 2009

GO!llage
12 February 2009

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Parts and Labor
5 February 2009

The following are some paintings I made for my collages.  They are experiments, industrial research for new tools and parts to place in my machines.
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Machines to Make Same
4 February 2009

A few attempts from November.  I will not discuss their failings, as these deficiencies are manifest:
“Lincoln Profile”

“Damen Bus”
I had to at least give it a try.  I cut up a few of these paintings to use in collages, and started tacking them up with the photographs I was painting from.  As I wrote previously, a [...]

Machines to Make Strange
3 February 2009

The photographs in these collages were taken in June, but assembled in September and October.  I think they are an attempt to make sense of Pont-Aven as a space of social relations, rather than simply a site of artistic production.
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The assemblages generally progressed from large and expansive to small and particular, as I found the [...]

Time Machine
3 February 2009

I spent the summer in Europe, at a place called Pont-Aven.  I made many paintings there, which came out more or less like this.
It took me awhile to figure out what to do next.  Jason Karolak mentioned that the shift from representational work to abstract was indicative of the space I entered, itself an abstraction [...]