Here’s my art year in review. A lot of work made, a lot of progress, and fun. It was a good year.
Finally getting these pictures up.
Finally getting these up.
Roosters were first domesticated by humans for sacred cockfighting rituals over two millennia ago. Such rituals were used for divination and fortunetelling. The symbolism of this religious tradition is widespread and is present in Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. The secular sport of cockfighting is one of the oldest sports in human culture.
This series explores the importance of rules, rituals, and symbolism in human culture. The importance of games and systems of play in Art. The nature of animal cruelty, human and animal interfacing, and how humans see themselves in the clash between the sacred and the flesh.
Humans are cybernetic beings. We are defined by our tools. No other animal adapts to it’s environment like humans, by modifying our selves. Before fire, before the spear, our oldest tool perhaps was The Dog.
Finally getting around to uploading these online. From the Agon series.
A couple of updates on what I’m working on in the studio. Hopefully these will be done soon.
I wish I would work in the studio more.
Finally got some pictures of the stuff I’ve been working on. I have a lot more stuff in progress but I wanted to wait till I got better pictures. This piece is part of a huge series I’m currently engaged in called Agon.
Agon: from the Greek for Struggle.
Roosters were first domesticated over two millennia ago not for food but for sacred cockfights in which roosters fought as part of divination rituals and blood sacrifice
This ritual is part of the history of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity.
The title of this piece, Impossible Geometry was inspired by a song from Swords and Sworcery, the op-art of Yvaral, my own child-hood interest in the science of perception, and the fact that deers are pretty cool.
The full quality of this piece is hard to see via photo since the purple paint in the background is slightly iridescent.
So I’m back in the studio doing traditional media work again. I’ll hopefully be keeping up with some speedpainting stuff though. This was my first completed piece coming back. The mandala is made with copper leaf so seeing it in real life is pretty cool.
