failure lies around ambition's corner

This contraption is an attempt at making two rotating landscapes in proximity, one powered by a handcrank and the other by bicycle, put in relation to each other so as to fully encompass the viewer with an amount of madness that can be described as experiencing four seasons in four seconds. However, these are photos from a critique as a work in progress and I hope to finish it and also include various performative aspects as well.

the river runs so wild

Three days in the wild rafting down the James quickly turned into only one as my first attempt at roughing it in this fashion is very much a learning experience...

the tower in the mountains

A 2-dimensional landscape made 3-dimensional, this piece stems from a paper-like dream I had in which I found myself trekking through mountain passes LOTR style trying to reach an enormous radio tower in which I could send a distress beacon to outlying intelligent life forms for help. O, how I long for the attempt at contacting the unknown, but, yea, how the fear I have of actually facing them still grips me.

the nature of nature, naturally

a blob of artificial, shedding, and overall disgusting green seeding that decided to sprout dollar tree flowers and hypnotic, ambient music.

Christmas in January

I know this is a belated entry but I just came across these pictures on my camera of a festive gingerbread house lovingly sculpted by my little brother, sister and I. I just couldn't pass up showing Alex, Rachel, and my group installation...

elephant stomps

After finding an amazing blue plastic elephant toy at fan-tastic I apprehensively cut him in two in order to make him some friends. I loved how they looked when they were coming together so I started distorting them even more only to come up with a herd of misfit elephants that were cut in two... oh bother. I feel like I was doing surgery in order to find their soft insides but had the realization of a child who found that their favorite animal has only stuffing on the inside. The whole experience was fun, though, and minus the chemical burns on my hands and the cough I'm still getting over from breathing in silica, concrete was a rather fun material to work with.

so we can see your lion's mane

So I've been committing absorbant amounts of fakery in keeping up a blog but at least to be somewhat legit let me show you some friends I've made along the way... (some new and some longtime scrabble partners)