Been making some new works here in the Sierras. I have new inspiration, and have been making the most of whatever I can use as media here. I purchased a photocopier down in Sacramento and have been using it.. New pieces are 18x24 acrylic, pencil, paper scraps, xerox transparencies finished with an epoxy resin. Enjoy- thanks for looking! More works to come!!

Recent Developments 10-2011

Just wanted to post some photos of some recent prints I just finished. I'm trying to have a blowout sale so everything you see is for sale right now. The bubble has burst- everything must go!!!!!! The Century 21 prints are large 24x36 inches- 250$ they are all unique- 3 are similar- so very limited quantity.. I'll be posting more stuff too!! come and get it!!!!

life....

Life, in the most basic form, has been a bit challenging lately. I'm still here, still working the same job, still living in the same apartment, and still inhabiting the same skin... Day after day.. I still have the same hopes, dreams, passions, and desires; some of these have just gotten more clear to me now, but those who have moved on get further and further away.. It's not easy.. Sometimes you have to move on while still making room for someone... its a strange dichotomy.

I got injured snowboarding about a week and a half ago.. While normally this would be debilitating... it seemed to be a catalyst for making things go better in my world. I had some serious down-time.. I was able to take that fucking lemon and make it into a series of lemondrop shots.. I ordered take-out pagaliacci pizza, i ate weed cookies, i read, i wrote in my journal, i watched awesome movies and documentaries... i lived... while being lame. This was a first.. My fridge was stocked... I drank prosecco, i drank beer, I made tea, I drank wine, I drug myself with my hands to the bathroom- I struggled to get into and out-of bed.. I iced my broken body.. I measured my days with ibuprofen tablets... it was a bit of bitter, with a bit of sweet.. it just depended on how i decided to look at things..

Now a week and a half out.. with some serious bruising on my tailbone and a still recovering right groin... Iam back to work, I'm riding my bike, I'm bowling, and having a kick-ass time with co-workers at our holiday party. And today has been a milestone.. I sold a joint-purchase van to close a chapter of my life, and accepted a job promotion. I have been really reluctant to take on any additional responsibilities in my life for the longest time.. This feels like a recognition for what I normally do, with some added (and fully do-able)responsibilities and a good increase in wage. It also feels like just a little step towards where my life is going. For that I am thankful..

All the while.. i sit typing this.. drinking pbr, eating ghetto home-made nachos, wearing a button up, a beanie and my boxer briefs... i think it just paints a picture.. .. ... ... thanks life.. i'll keep on keepin on.. Meanwhile I'll be listening to this album as much as possible.. its a oldie but a goodie.. thanks Papa M.

New Prints Currently at SAM GALLERY

Here are a couple of new prints in the "Manifest Destiny" series. These were made over this past winter and spring. More prints up soon.

Finally Making Dreams Realities.

After many many years.. finally got to see my favorite band of late high school years and more recently of the present play in town... a 30 year accoustic set by The Church.. one of Australia's finest.... They really played well and showed how perseverance and dedication show sophistication and elegant aging like that of prophetic writing and good planning. The band looked fantastic, healthy and fit, and played two- one hour 11 song sets plus encores. For me it was a chance to realize a dream. I hope I get another chance and feel grateful to be re-united with some old friends. Apologies for poor photos from the phone.. my point and shoot was stolen, only to be replaced in the future..

3-31-10

This marks the nine year anniversary of a dear friends death, far too young. Jeff Reed was a pioneer, an artist, a free-thinker, a ripper, a great cook and one of my best and most influential friends. He passed away tonight, nine years ago from complications of malignant melanoma. He was only 26 years old and, before struck by cancer, was in the prime of his life. I am thankful to have know him, to have traveled with him, and to have been heavily influenced by him. His memory and spirit is still alive in myself, and the friends I know who know and loved him, and definitely by his younger brother who continues to blaze his own path through life- as he sees it, and by his loving and very cool parents and family. You will not be forgotten Mr. Jeff Reed. Thanks for your rich legacy in a short amount of time.

New Developments to the Studio

I've moved a couple of times since i built my first studio in my old apartment. This newer incarnation has a home-crafted paper-drying rack; I was laying my paper on my bed and on tables until my inks had a chance to dry. I have also stepped into the realms of seriousness with an actual pressure washer to really clean out my screens. Its made a huge difference. I was using a nasty super-toxic solvent to clean out my screens and that was not only incredibly time-consuming it was noxious as hell- burning the precious few remaining brain cells I have. So here are a couple of new shots of the studio in the dining room. Thanks to Suzanne for letting me take the whole room up to make my stuff.