Local TV Interview with Yours Truly
The video was taken down long ago but here is a screenshot. I was interviewed by a local TV station about the Obama napkin and the napkin story in general.
The Painter and the Custodians
Tulsa State Fair – The area behind the midway and outside the big expo building is a great place to see spaces and people in unexpected juxtapositions.
But don’t go there if you have a sensitive nose. It truly stinks!
A Woman Looking At Herself
This collage combines two photos from a shoot I did with a fellow co-worker at the
Restaurant where I worked. The color images in the background of the framed image are
of the SF bay on one side and of the Nevada desert on the other.
There had been a photo of a nude male on the wall in that location and I originally
posed her to be looking at it. But it seemed tacky and I didn’t really like the photo of
the guy so I decided to put an image of my own in its place.
A Snake in the Eulipian Grass
Another in a short series I did using co-workers at the restaurant, Eulipia, where I
worked back in the 80s and 90s in San Jose, Ca. This one was a result of a photo
shoot with a few people who had freckles. I was in the middle of doing a series of
pointillist photo-collages where I glued photos of freckles on top of full-color
reproductions of pointillist paintings I had in a big art book.
This collage came about after I saw the possibility of making the negative background
space of the sky in the prior collage into a solid positive part of the image. In
this case the grass no longer just acts as grass but now has a shape and symbolism
that makes it into a real/not real object.
A Seldom Seen Stretch of the Eulipian River
I worked at a restaurant named Eulipia in San Jose, California from 1981-1994 while I was going to graduate school and starting out as a college art instructor. I finally left when I moved to Tulsa to start a new career in Interactive Design.
This collage was a result of a photo shoot with three of my co-workers from the restaurant. We did the shoot in one of their backyards while they were sunbathing on a hot summer day. I had been creating a series of collages that used body part close ups combined with sky or other neutral colored backgrounds.
This collage resulted from having all the photos on my drawing board which was a large door actually attached to two drawing board bases. As I laid them out I started seeing a flow to the images. I originally had only one row, with the body below and the sky above. At that point it seemed like a landscape. But I had a lot of photos from the shoot and I laid out a second row to see if those photos might have a different rhythm and flow to them.
I got the idea to turn the top row over and the blue matched up and became a river in my mind. Then it was just a matter of finding the right place for each photo so the flow of the river was pleasing to my eye.
Disney Collage – Cultural Swimming Lesson
People of Color #5 – Woman Facing a Snake
The last day of my week long series on ‘People of Color’. Give feedback and tell me what you thought of the series and which series has really stood out over the last few months.
People of Color #2 – Plaid Person Peering
Day two of my week long series of ‘People of Color’. I like plaid people. I wish more
people were plaid.
Post Card #1 – San Diego Road Trip
The restaurant experience was not indicative of the entire trip. It got much better after this!
I didn’t include the gross guy sleeping at the table next to us, or the stale, greasy smell in the
restaurant, or the 4 disgustingly dirty men at another table or the really bad smell in the
bathroom or the hair in my wife’s mashed potatoes. My patty melt was good though.
Impressionist Composition #6
This is part of a week long posting showing a series I did way back in the 80’s where
I combined photographs of body impressions on top of Impressionist paintings.
This is one of Vince and I. My part of it was taken after wearing a bathing suit
under my pants for an entire day in anticipation of going swimming, which never
happened. When I got back to the hotel with my wife and took off my clothes I had
this incredible impression on my stomach from the elastic and asked her to take a
photo of it since it was so funny looking.
This was the first photo I took about impressions actually, though it wasn’t until I
took a sandal strap impression a few years later that I figured out the connection to
the impressionist paintings.