welcome to shanty-ville

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Digital Photo
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This is our cedar.
That’s the floor and the tall wall.
That is all I want to tell you.

We have a lot of work to do.

2009 11 13

no more stuttering

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink and Pencil on Paper
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I can d-d-d-raw I sw-sw-sw-ear.

you're looking good today

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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i don’t know why i wouldn’t

2009 11 11

i can't stop it

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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My control is beyond my control.

thank you for this fine feast

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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if they were visible
to the human eye

i think that
invocation thought-forms
might be shaped
like ferns

2009 11 09

yupyapyupyap

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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Just jabbering away
in total agreement

2009 11 08

timeline grande

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink and Pencil on Paper
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This is what it feels like
when you can feel
all near possibilities
playing out
at the same time.

2009 11 07

tought little boat

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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At least she floats.

everything in its place

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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and something is still wrong.

2009 11 05

heads will roll

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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You can’t stop it.

Perpetual Perceptual: A Modulation Visualizating Station
The latest crazation that’s sweeping the nation. The biggest thing since hallucination. Please, step inside this abomination.NeedleworkI’m no seamstress.circlesIf you look close, you will see the needle in the shadows.beamsBig and beautiful smelling recycled playground cedar… wrapped in mis-manufactured artist canvas.Look out the Hole and PerceiveLook out the ear and see sound. You can also see what a messy studio we have.Closed UpAll closed up it stands a little over 8 feet tall.six minivan loadsDid I mention that this is modular? The skeleton breaks down into six minivan loads.step inside this glorious beastWhat an attractive profile.outside and inThe teeth are for biting.light peaking through the cracksInside view, without the candles.Me standing inside my beautiful abode.Standing inside my giant head. Perceiving you.

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Recycled Playground Lumber, Mismanufactured Artist Canvas, Bolts, Nuts, Screws, Broken Snare Drum Head, Steel Rods, Needle and Thread
Approximate Size: 6′ (wide) x 6.5′ (deep) x 8′ (high)
This item has been destroyed

This is the materialization of the big head structure that I’ve been drawing for a couple years now.
You can find an example here or here … and there are many more scattered throughout the site.

The concept:
We can not determine the actual use of an architectural structure. We can design buildings with an INTENDED use in mind, but we can not predict how they will ACTUALLY be used (i.e. a movie theater can be used for many disgusting things, beyond watching a bad movie).

Along those same thought lines, we ALL perceive the same reality differently. We don’t know the truth about truth. We only know that we all perceive.

I see this as an opportunity, because the ONLY thing an architectural structure can POSSIBLY be used for (at least the only thing we KNOW it can be used for) IS perception.

That’s why I’ve made Perpetual Perceptual.

This is a humble abode designed purely for your perception.

Lots of “FIRST”s for such a tiny architectural structure.
This is the FIRST architectural structure designed with perception as THE intended use.
This is the FIRST architectural structure that is successful in delivering it’s intended use to ALL of it’s occupant’s.
This is the FIRST architectural structure that we actually KNOW is functioning.
*I am aware that some of these “FIRST”s are only perceptions.

Custom perceptual abodes available. Just contact me.

oh wait ... this is paper

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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I got to put one on wheels.

2009 11 02

oh snap

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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A shout out to all of my brothers and sisters working on CAD drawings today.

2009 11 01

scupper model

scupper

ritualizer

terminus

scupper model

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Wood, Alluminum, Marble, Limestone and Brass
Size: Approximately 24″ x 10″ x 10″
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This is a 2″ = 1′ model of this. The terminus was also featured in the sneak peak section a couple days ago here.

2009 10 31

dressing up as matt

semke mask up close

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Digital Photo
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I thought it would be scary to dress up as Matt Semke.

Happy Halloween you guys.

2009 10 30

scupper model preview

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Digital Photo
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An extra special sneak peak entry.

I’m making a model of this. Originally, it was a group project and I was only in charge of making the terminus. Now, I have to recreate the entire experience with a model.

2″ = 1′ is the scale.

Try to imagine what you think my full model will look like.

2009 10 29

quite a load

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink and Pencil on Paper
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Yes, I totally deleted my website.
One by one all the entries will return.
It is quite a load.

Update: 2009-10-29-1:24pm. Managed to find a MYSQL back up I made on 10-12… the kind people at freehostia (hosting provider) helped me restore it. Most of the entries have been restored.

2009 10 28

plumb run out

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Charcoal and Pastel on Paper
Size: 12″ x 18″
$35.00
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Sometimes, I wish I could just run out of ideas and relax a little.

2009 10 27

ground and sky

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink and Pencil on Paper
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Where DO they meet?

eating my brains right out

Creation Date: 2006
Medium: Charcoal and Pastel on Paper
Size: 18″ x 12″
$35.00
[wp_cart:eating my brains right out charcoal drawing:price:35:end]

I don’t know why I always let them do this to me.

esophagus sarcophagus

the captured water

rope

esophagus sarcophagus

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Stone, Rope, Wood, Flowers and Grass
Size: Approx 24″ x 8″ x 6″
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This stone coffin captures three ounces water and allows it to be swallowed by the earth’s big belly. That’s why its called esophaguys sarcophagus.

And

I really like to rhyme.

2009 10 24

ballance king

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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Just look straight ahead and don’t worry about it.

2009 10 23

gallimaufry

a combination of school house, wigwam, and ice shack

plan view

an ice shanty?

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Charcoal and Pastel on Paper
Sizes: Various (Largest is 18″ x 12″)
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Fabulous news! Vesper College has been accepted to this years Art Shanty Project!

Six of us will be working together to put together an abode that goes out on the ice. This is my concept. Gallimaufry means hodgepodge, a collection of unrelated items or a “junk drawer”. This is a hodgepodge of a classic one room school house, a wigwam, and an ice shanty.

Our finished project will probably look nothing like this.

everyone opening their junk drawer

Creation Date: 2009
Medium: Ink on Paper
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It is not a good idea to all do this at the same time.