Blabber N' Smoke

Installation piece  (velvet, wood & bonemeal) 

This was about trying to look into strange material combinations; the luxurious and earthy, the mundane and the garish. I found it a struggle to create something which could entirely accommodate all of the space, but this seemed to represent to me a shift back into object based works. I think I was also interested in tents and shelters and strange gardening materials like bonemeal, which i find both repulsive and sort of alluring. Overall, this could have been executed a lot better if I perhaps made use of the crushed velvet texture more and its versatile sheen in different lighting. The use of harsh lighting was definitely deliberate, so that the room had an otherworldly and kind of sickly glow. Sometimes I get weighed down in trying to have a strong concept that I lose that essential sense of play needed with experimentation. 

Work-in-progress (wood and rubble)

This is intended as a very quick physical sketch for a much larger piece inspired by Robert Smithson’s earth and mirror works which dealt with the separating of natural sources and boundaries between natural and man made materials. Resembling parallel tracks or pistons (locomotive), the work would try to convey a state of kinetic energy, referencing perpetual motion and the industrial age, such as steam trains. I’m still undecided over the materials, as the sketch uses two old broken off chair legs and a large mass of rubble, which turns more into sediment on the outer layers. Large plates of steel may be more practical, as it is more easily obtainable.

Work-in-progress collection of rocks and chiseling tools for sculpture/installation

Half finished self-portrait - about 75% there 

Fountain at Versailles in Autumn, 1916 - Henri Le Sidaner 

Jean Cocteau’s “I Married a Witch” set design, created for the Theatre de la Mode in 1945

Joan Mitchell - Minnesota 

(Source: totallyconfused)

Victor Pesce - Heart of the City (2006)

Like something out of Zelda..

Leonora Carrington - Red Mask, 1950