Leaking Tower

It's the middle of the scorching desert and you've crash landed your one ticket home into the north side of a pile of sand the size of Mt. Rainer. Don't worry too much though because beside you just happens to be the worlds most remote (and unnecessary) construction of wood and steel in the form of a water tower. Things have been going great, the tower provides shade and water in the unbearable heat of the morning, noon and night. A small spigot at the bottom of the tower easily twists to the right to reveal a seemingly endless flow of liquid gold. For whatever reason this tower was built it can surely be said that you are one lucky fuck. So, minus the food aspect, you've basically got it made.
Too bad a band of marauders equipped with AK-47's and knives duly unsuitable for cooking just stumbled on you an your towering oasis. Short of slicing your head of with a machete or pulling your toe nails off one by one with pliers the band of desert delinquents has left you alone. Sure they robbed you of every inch of semi-worthy material and shot holes in your spring, but hey, at least you aren't dead.
Before you, in the wake of the mugging, lies the key to your survival slowly spewing out its contents into the absorbent orange and red sand. 'Yikes' you think, maybe I should try and stop the water from leaking out. Maybe delusional from the stunning heat, possible vexed by the assault just sapped upon you or even conceivably because you haven't had so much as a lizard to eat in the past week you decide to simply watch the water drain out the holes and fall to the ground.
Gravity is a wonderful thing.

Update: Sketchbook

A few more sketchbook pages. . .

Flower Illustration

Done in illustrator CS3, colored in photoshop.

Rock Always Wins

Random Photography - Eastern Washington

Sorry about the horrible photoshop job, I wanted to spruce up the pictures. Didn't turn out so well. . .

End of the Year Book Photos!

The final project for my year at cornish was to create a 14 page book inspired by a site of our choice. I decided to go to the OSP (Olympic Sculpture Park) and do some blind contour drawings. Below are the photos from that book, unfortunately the photos turned out a little blurry but i don't have time to take new ones. I will be selling this book to Ruthy tomorrow, I hope it enjoys its new owner - take care of it Ruthy.

100 Interests - Connections Artwork

After creating another list of 100 things I was interested in our foundations class was asked to create a piece of art that connected the list we made at the beginning of the year with the one we created last week. I decided to make a word hunt of sorts. Check it out.

Pocket Shrine 2.0

Here is my pocket shrine from the end of the year. Check back in my blog history to see the original shrine from September.

 

Wednesday Night: Sutton-Beres-Culler

Sutton-Beres-Culler, I sculpture trio (minus one) that visited us last wednesday night shared their sculptural works and discussed what it takes to make effective three dimensional objects. Site played a huge role in nearly all of the pieces they presented to us. It seemed as though most of their works were somewhat comical and almost satirical in nature. From the drive through gallery to the park bench and even the asian restaurant inside a gallery, the site they choose and what goes it in usually seems to reflect a place where the decided object would not usually be. Limited not only to comedy, Sutton-beres-Culler also utilized site in a more utilitarian way in means of beautifying the urban landscapes around Seattle. Chalk friendly sidewalks, trolly car man-hole covers and even renovated gas stations, it appeared that the group also cared deeply for the community they create in and what they can do to make it a better, more artistic space to live in. The main thing I think I will take from all of this is that site is much more important than I had once thought it was. It can be used as comic relief, or even a serious means of telling a story about a place or time. I'm not sure how this will exactly tie into my upcoming projects but I believe it has weighed heavily in my brain. I hope to take advantage of its intricacies in my artwork sometime in the future.