Recent Work

As I’m blogging I’m constantly working on new artwork. I want you to understand that my work isn’t about a style I claim as mine. It is all I’ve learned about aesthetics this far, in the service of combining images — optimally unlike ones — into works that jell.

These are from the last few months and they’re as unlike each other as apples and Toyotas.

01. I have a deep fondness for Pop Art, though I think that recent extensions of it and Anime get too loosey-goosey in technique for me. Pop Art didn’t need to be sloppy, each artist developed a recognizable approach. You don’t mistake Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Warhol. They were/are serious. I tire of less serious artists whose main delight seems to be waggling their fannies in your face.

of it and Anime get too loosey-goosey in technique for me. Pop Art didn’t need to be sloppy, each artist developed a recognizable approach. You don’t mistake Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Warhol. They were/are serious. I tire of less serious artists whose main delight seems to be waggling their fannies in your face.

OK, Pop Art and me. I love their unabashed color, their aesthetic of designed space. To me, this first image plants its feet in Pop and feels like they’re in moccasins.

Based on one image from unsplash by Alexagate.

02. Based on three unsplash photos, all altered. The photographers are Md Mahdi, okeycat and Nathan Dumlao.

03. All photos from textures.com. This site nearly always elicits a different kind of response in me.

04. Both of these photos are from Tan Kaninthanond on unsplash.

05. Two pinks from unsplash. Umbrellas Chandler Walters, truck Paul Trienekens. Third image obviously by me.

06. Three photos from unsplash. Md Mahdi, Marcus Lenk, helloimnik. Did a series of these which please me.