Friday, December 6, 2013
Friday, November 29, 2013
"I'll never leave. I'll always stay. I swear on all that I keep safe."
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| Effected I, 4X3in(ish), mixed media |
"...my love is older than my soul."
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Half Double Split Divided
This is a Collaborative Show I'm doing with another artist in my program, Mike Lee.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Gallery 468
6:00-8:00pm
I'm super excited!
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Research
Unfortunately, my summer was unproductive as far as new art making was concerned, but I have done a lot of research, and I've been diving in, and scavenging for relevant information at full force since school started. From the psychological connotations of the circle (which I have made the main object of my work) to it's rich spiritual symbolism revered in other cultures, mainly Islam, I have delved into a new school year with renewed passion for what I am doing.
For an English class I had to read a couple of wonderful pieces and I wanted to share them here because I feel like these are ideas that influence my work, and perhaps all art. In my opinion, Art is the human experience explored. So here are a couple of things for our minds to chew on as we consider life and experience, and exploring it.
Quote from Joyas Voladores: "We are utterly open with no one, in the end - not mother and father, nor wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. Perhaps we must. Perhaps we could not bear to be so naked, for fear of a constantly harrowed heart. When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is the dream of a child, that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore, no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you bring to the wall. You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words I have something to tell you, a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair, the memory of you father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children." - Brian Doyle
Here's a second link to another profoundly moving article:
A Sin by Brian Doyle
For an English class I had to read a couple of wonderful pieces and I wanted to share them here because I feel like these are ideas that influence my work, and perhaps all art. In my opinion, Art is the human experience explored. So here are a couple of things for our minds to chew on as we consider life and experience, and exploring it.
Quote from Joyas Voladores: "We are utterly open with no one, in the end - not mother and father, nor wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. Perhaps we must. Perhaps we could not bear to be so naked, for fear of a constantly harrowed heart. When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is the dream of a child, that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore, no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you bring to the wall. You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words I have something to tell you, a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair, the memory of you father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children." - Brian Doyle
Here's a second link to another profoundly moving article:
A Sin by Brian Doyle
Friday, July 26, 2013
"I'm never real. It is just a sketch of me. And everything I made is trite and cheap, and a waste of paint, of tape, of time."
this used to be one of my favorite songs. and sometimes you just gotta come back to the classics.
'it's sorry.'
just one cherry.
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| a small study I did a while ago |
"last few months I've been living with this couple.
yeah, you know the kind that buy everything in doubles?
oh, they fit together like a puzzle.
and I love their love and I am thankful
that someone actually receives the prize that was promised
by all those fairy tales that drugged us.
and they still do me.
i'm sick, lonely,
no laurel tree
just green envy.
will my number come up eventually?
like loves is some kind of lottery
where you scratch and see what's underneath...
'it's sorry.'
just one cherry.
'play again.'
Get lucky."
Get lucky."
Friday, July 19, 2013
Miniatures Art Show
I had one of my pieces accepted into the Miniatures Art Show (an online show, as of right now) at the Linus Gallery in southern California. My piece, "Circles Learning From Experience," is eligible to be selected for the live collective show coming up this Fall. I'll keep ya'll posted. :)
This is the link to the whole show:
http://linusgallery.com/juried-exhibitions/category/miniatures/
And this is the link to my piece:
http://linusgallery.com/juried-exhibitions/juried-art-exhibitions-leica-clayton-21/
This is the link to the whole show:
http://linusgallery.com/juried-exhibitions/category/miniatures/
And this is the link to my piece:
http://linusgallery.com/juried-exhibitions/juried-art-exhibitions-leica-clayton-21/
Friday, May 31, 2013
Every day...
...you walk with stronger step, you walk with longer step, the worst is over. < 3
This is documentation of my show that I took down today. It went well. I'm grateful that I was able to do this, and I'm glad that I gained so much experience putting it all together. These past few months since being home from my mission, I've learned so much about adversity and rejection: a billion job applications, a billion show applications, almost as many rejections from both, and a continually breaking heart really brought me down to a low point. But more importantly, I learned that if you just keep pushing forward with faith that things will resolve themselves. Don't give up. There are good things to come. :)
(check out how messed up my hair is hahah)
This is documentation of my show that I took down today. It went well. I'm grateful that I was able to do this, and I'm glad that I gained so much experience putting it all together. These past few months since being home from my mission, I've learned so much about adversity and rejection: a billion job applications, a billion show applications, almost as many rejections from both, and a continually breaking heart really brought me down to a low point. But more importantly, I learned that if you just keep pushing forward with faith that things will resolve themselves. Don't give up. There are good things to come. :)
Friday, May 10, 2013
Seeing and Beeing Seen Show
This is a flyer for my show. It's a video installation that I've been working on since the beginning of last semester. The opening reception will be Friday, May 17, 6-8pm
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
between hopeful and hopeless
late night post about some musical influences bc i can't sleep, but i am in fact horribly tired and incapable of doing something more productive with my unfortunate bout of insomnia time.
carried away - passion pit
still not over how much i love
1)this song
"i get carried away, carried away from you, and I'm hoping and I'm praying, cause i'm sorry, sorry about that, sorry about things that I said, always let it get to my head..."
2)this video
i think ur a contra - vampire weekend
i've quoted this briefly on my blog before. mostly because it's an all time fav, and it's constantly popping back into my head.
"Never pick sides, never choose between two.
But I just wanted to you,
I just wanted you."
winter is coming - radical face
winter isn't actually coming...bad timing on my part.
radical face was a big influence in a lot of my dumb sketchbook nothings and a few prints from 2010
"Everything we stole, everything we broke,
Everything we bought is gone
A couple dumb mistakes, bigger than we thought,
Nothing to left to do but run
If I could put it back, fill in all the cracks,
Nothing there I wouldn't change
But wishing never helps, wishing never helps,
Wishing never solved a thing"
inches and falling - the format
this, for me, is a classic. i'd quote the whole thing bc it's probably 80% true to how i feel and 100% well put: the ups, the downs, the loss of hope, the renewal of hope...all to a completely 2000s-ish punk beat, hahahah
"we'll take our chances! we'll last a month...we'll never speak again. how i love being in love...
"you don't need him, you need to be seen. so someone else can treat you wrong, so you, my love, can sing this song: i love love, i love being in love, i don't care what it does to me...
"we'll take our chances! we'll rise above! we'll last until the end! how, i love how, i love how, i love being in love!"
fin.
carried away - passion pit
1)this song
"i get carried away, carried away from you, and I'm hoping and I'm praying, cause i'm sorry, sorry about that, sorry about things that I said, always let it get to my head..."
2)this video
i think ur a contra - vampire weekend
"Never pick sides, never choose between two.
But I just wanted to you,
I just wanted you."
winter is coming - radical face
radical face was a big influence in a lot of my dumb sketchbook nothings and a few prints from 2010
"Everything we stole, everything we broke,
Everything we bought is gone
A couple dumb mistakes, bigger than we thought,
Nothing to left to do but run
If I could put it back, fill in all the cracks,
Nothing there I wouldn't change
But wishing never helps, wishing never helps,
Wishing never solved a thing"
inches and falling - the format
"we'll take our chances! we'll last a month...we'll never speak again. how i love being in love...
"you don't need him, you need to be seen. so someone else can treat you wrong, so you, my love, can sing this song: i love love, i love being in love, i don't care what it does to me...
"we'll take our chances! we'll rise above! we'll last until the end! how, i love how, i love how, i love being in love!"
fin.
Friday, April 19, 2013
you may think it's nothing on first listen...
"...in the time it takes for you to make love, you can break love, waste love, and throw it all away.
but all you need is faith and hope will bring a brighter day..."
these mean a lot to me. they are the start of a huge collection of ideas and a soon to be large collection of paintings. they've come to mean so much that I'm afraid to write about them/talk about them bc i'll probably sound like a fool, and that would make me sad.
but i figure i should try anyway because it does mean so much.
On my mission, the circle became an important symbol for me. it's a powerful, spiritual symbol to me. there are some obvious connotations.
First, eternity. circles are a line that never ends. they communicate the idea of continuation, and as I think of them, they communicate a continual progression. Which leads to the next point...
perfection. This is huge in my ideas. Not because these paintings are perfect, but because even as I strive to be exact, and as I dedicate the long hours to make them, there are little flaws everywhere. this is a criticism of the modern idea of perfection as being some cookie cutter shape for everyone. the criticism can be intended towards social pressures (i.e. how i should look, dress, behave), but i actually think of it in terms of the pressure i personally put on myself to be "perfect" in any way, i.e. in a worldy context, or within my own religion.
now don't get me wrong, i believe 100% in the gospel of jesus christ, as taught by prophets of his restored church (lds.org), i just think that i often misinterpret what it is that God actually wants me to be doing.
I strive to be like Christ because He is the way. But I've come to a conclusion that as I try make those decisions to follow his perfect example, that he is in fact putting me into better touch with who I actually am as the individual the God created, even when I falter all the time.
so to me, there is no cookie cutter. We are all different. and I don't think that when we reach the end of the line that being perfect will mean being all exactly the same. which lead to my third point...
completion. "perfect" in the original texts of the new testament, didn't mean perfect in the way we often think of perfect. it meant something more along the lines of "complete." is that not the most beautiful idea you've ever heard? it makes so much more sense to me that way. Christ commanded his disciples to be complete... so we just keep doing our best in this life, eventually we will become that. Even though the road is long and difficult, and will likely leave us in many instances full of painful holes and aching emptiness, if we keep trying we will become complete, because God has promised to fill us with his joy, (John 15:10-12 for the avid reader). I try to make this paintings feel full. There have been a lot of experiences to fill them.
individualism. as previously addressed, I think God wants us to be individuals, people who have learned to think for themselves, and make the best out of what blessings, talents, and gifts God has given us. and I believe that God allows for trying times in our lives in order to continue guiding us to our fullest potential.
So each circle painting I've made is unique. They have different details, patterns, intricacies, etc. Each one is it's own self, containing it's own story of what made it what it is today.
so that's my best attempt at explaining this concept.
hope ya'll enjoyed it. :)
but all you need is faith and hope will bring a brighter day..."
these mean a lot to me. they are the start of a huge collection of ideas and a soon to be large collection of paintings. they've come to mean so much that I'm afraid to write about them/talk about them bc i'll probably sound like a fool, and that would make me sad.
but i figure i should try anyway because it does mean so much.
On my mission, the circle became an important symbol for me. it's a powerful, spiritual symbol to me. there are some obvious connotations.
First, eternity. circles are a line that never ends. they communicate the idea of continuation, and as I think of them, they communicate a continual progression. Which leads to the next point...
perfection. This is huge in my ideas. Not because these paintings are perfect, but because even as I strive to be exact, and as I dedicate the long hours to make them, there are little flaws everywhere. this is a criticism of the modern idea of perfection as being some cookie cutter shape for everyone. the criticism can be intended towards social pressures (i.e. how i should look, dress, behave), but i actually think of it in terms of the pressure i personally put on myself to be "perfect" in any way, i.e. in a worldy context, or within my own religion.
now don't get me wrong, i believe 100% in the gospel of jesus christ, as taught by prophets of his restored church (lds.org), i just think that i often misinterpret what it is that God actually wants me to be doing.
I strive to be like Christ because He is the way. But I've come to a conclusion that as I try make those decisions to follow his perfect example, that he is in fact putting me into better touch with who I actually am as the individual the God created, even when I falter all the time.
so to me, there is no cookie cutter. We are all different. and I don't think that when we reach the end of the line that being perfect will mean being all exactly the same. which lead to my third point...
completion. "perfect" in the original texts of the new testament, didn't mean perfect in the way we often think of perfect. it meant something more along the lines of "complete." is that not the most beautiful idea you've ever heard? it makes so much more sense to me that way. Christ commanded his disciples to be complete... so we just keep doing our best in this life, eventually we will become that. Even though the road is long and difficult, and will likely leave us in many instances full of painful holes and aching emptiness, if we keep trying we will become complete, because God has promised to fill us with his joy, (John 15:10-12 for the avid reader). I try to make this paintings feel full. There have been a lot of experiences to fill them.
individualism. as previously addressed, I think God wants us to be individuals, people who have learned to think for themselves, and make the best out of what blessings, talents, and gifts God has given us. and I believe that God allows for trying times in our lives in order to continue guiding us to our fullest potential.
So each circle painting I've made is unique. They have different details, patterns, intricacies, etc. Each one is it's own self, containing it's own story of what made it what it is today.
so that's my best attempt at explaining this concept.
hope ya'll enjoyed it. :)
Monday, April 15, 2013
Detach Art Show
Our 480 class had a collaborative art show:
And I used this piece from my escapism paintings:
And I used this piece from my escapism paintings:
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Annual Student Show
I had two pieces accepted in the Annual Student Art Show: Taking a Stand (a video piece I've posted on here), and Strange Friend (two small paintings framed together from my escapist paintings).
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| "Strange Friend" hanging on the fourth floor of the HFAC |
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Completion: Circle Series
Mini Paintings 5X7-ish inches
Single Circle Staying Afloat with Ease
Blank Circle
Circles Being Honest with One Another
Circles Learning From Experience
Serenity Circle
Resilient Single Circle
Well Balanced Single Circle
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Taking a Stand (Winter 2013)
This was done for my new genre class this semester. It is a performance piece called taking a stand, and this is the documentation of the work.
After a class critique it was suggested that the video would be sufficient with only the first segment because of the quality of the layout for the film (cred. Hannah Steward), and because the idea is understandable from the first view.
This is the second version of this project with that in mind:
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
I thought I Knew
2 hours, 2 paintings...every day.
This is only the beginning!
4X7in-ish, watercolors, and mixed media
4X7in-ish, watercolors, and mixed media
Monday, January 21, 2013
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