Handmade Art

All things here in the physical world are manifest through some process of creation. The modes and function of each of the things we use every day to make our lives what they are what they are through the realization of hundreds of thousands of years of human intellect stacking itself in so many different ways. How many ways are there to drink water? From a cupped hand, from a cleverly carved hunk of wood, from molten sand forged to the shape of a bottle, from an organ of a beast killed for its meat from the unfiltered pool itself. All things made pass away again to dirt as time moves forever through us and the idea of "we" ceases to make a distinction between who we humans think we are and the movement of the stars casting faintly on a bare desert.

Art is as meaningless as all that. So I choose not to make replicas of anything I do because as an object moves through the world, it gathers the feelings of the people that notice it. It stays personal. I like that. It's important that things stay personal in this world. I have made a lot of art in my life and most of it I have not recorded but this page has a few things that might represent me.

Below are buttons that branch to specific series pages and below that there are a few more examples that didn't fit in any of those pages either. Please enjoy.

Large Woodburning

Orbitals

Coasters

Spirit Coins

New

I like to make sculptures from items I acquire. There was a time in my life that I was always on the lookout for some wonderful new piece of golden trash until it became obvious that I had acquired far more than I had made. It wasn't lost on me that this phase of acquisition turned everything else in my life to lead. Tough times. Not like floating in a pool of mercury with Alice and the Timekeeper or anything like that, I swear. It was still manageable enough. Don't judge. Are you judging? Justice be swift and temperance everlasting!

This one I call "Scorched Earth Living." The two tall pieces of steel are the transmission sides of the CV axles off a 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek. The finish I used to accent the grain is 10W-30 motor oil. I hope the succulent survives! A woman bought it because she was talking with her friend about how Einstein apparently didn't believe in the affectation of quantum entanglement that we feel in our lives as the "law of attraction." Which... is definitely what this piece was about. I work with electricity enough to have made the wires a "functional" artistic interpretation.

This next one is called the Willpower Generator. I carried this around for several days in San Francisco until I smashed it into pieces on the sidewalk when the Art School did not allow me to use the bathroom. That was pretty fun. Then i walked to the top of Coit Tower where I left a bunch of film and some notebooks... a completely filled sketchbook actually that I had worked on for at least a year. I was ... thinking that the essence of release of tension of ownership over the art that an artist makes is the most fundamental spiritual lesson a maker can lean into. What I am and what I make is the same as what is the us that finds our ways to see the differences again but this time with a kind of clarity that might rain more muse.

I did some experiments in the photo darkroom in college with extremely large roll paper that was going to expire. These three are the most successful of the attempts and were created by layering butcher paper stencils i cut with a blade to create negatives with variable transparency. Also sand.