Summer Commision

Summer is a busy time, the weather here in Truckee is insane. Between 75-85 degrees and sunny- every day. Mountain lakes, mountain bike rides, lots of active friends, trips to the coast to surf. Ok, ok you get it. So I've been slacking a bit. I haven't been so productive on the Artistic frontier. BUT... I did make this piece which actually was spoken for before it was ever finished. This is the new framing technique that I'm using. I'm no longer pouring resin over the edges when a piece is finished. I stepped up my game and bought some carpentry tools. Pieces are now framed in with birch plywood showing edgewise and moving in a clockwise flow. The painted panel with the photograph on it is sunk about 1/8" into the frame so that it creates a reservoir that the resin sits in. This is one of my favorite pieces completed to date. I'm so happy that my work feels like it is progressing. The image was taken from a drying lake up on Donner Summit. Multiple stumps were exposed from the receding waterline. All the stumps were bleach white and looked like ghosts or tombstones. It was a pretty powerful spot to visit and to take some photos. I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing more work from this shoot/location. The finished piece measured 22x36". Thanks for looking.

I just finished and turned over another piece to Lorien Powers to show and sell at her Jewelry Studio. This piece is called "Tahoe Rim Trial" (26"x16"). It was taken on the Tahoe Rim Trail on a mountain bike journey. It juxtaposes the chaotic life of living in the city with an implied grid system and references like "clock in, clock out, Traffic, sprawl, commute" etc. with the calm of the high reaching pines and the forest of the Tahoe area. Other text reads... "disconnect from the grid, get plugged into the calm of here". Its just a reminder why I live here- the forest and mountains have a very therapeutic and calming effect on me. Cheers! Thanks for reading and looking. More to come!

A little catch-up.

Since I've been putting a lot of energy into Positively Rolling and still love to snowboard, skateboard, surf and mountain bike- I haven't been as productive as I'd like to be. With winter turning to spring here in Truckee, I'm going to be putting my head down to make some more work in the next few months. But to catch us up to date- here are the two most recent pieces I've finished but have yet to post. Thanks for tuning in. The top image is called "Donner Dock #29". It is 48"x 22". It captures the calm feeling of midweek dock sessions during the late spring and summer. mystery text inside says "Around here, we jump in with both feet". The lower image is called "Brockway Fire Lookout". It is meant to look like a window frame. My friend Marco is a great woodworker and helped me create a different method of presenting my work so the resin no longer drips over the edge. The image plane is set into the wood frame by about 1/8" to act as a resin reservoir. I think it works very well with my process. The image is taken from the Brockway Summit fire lookout tower after a fresh snowfall last fall. I'll be revisiting that spot in the future. Thanks again for taking the time to look.