Me and My Leopard Cat..!!

May 12, 2014

His name is "CVJ", "Big Guy", "Pal", or "Don't Do That". He has a lot of names. He loves getting up and getting into whatever I'm working on. A constant ...

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Last Days Collage

September 17, 2013

Before dismantling and leaving my San Francisco Studio, I spent a week documenting the space and the work ongoing. I took 60,000 digital photographs with my Nikon D200 in a grid arrangement that wrapped around the room from the floor to the ceiling. This is the first day of resizing the images, printing, cutting and arranging them on rising boards. ...

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Dawn

September 10, 2013

Nisi Dominus, RV608, Cum dederit delectis suis Somnum, Andante Psalm 127 to begin the day. From the Album, Nisi Dominus, Stabat Mater (Countertenor: Philippe Jaroussky, Contralto: Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Ensemble Matheus, Conductor: Jean-Christophe Spinosi ...

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Extinction Burst

August 03, 2013

A plan for a free standing floor frame, measuring 85.5" x 107.5". It will eventually contain the 240 "In Search of Perfection" currency erasures. These erasures were made in 2007-8. I was obsessed trying to get a perfectly blank piece of paper from a $1 bill. After many months of scraping, sanding, perseverance and patience, the idea defeated itself. I can now generate perfect erasures. I ...

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A simple grid of Blank One Sides

July 29, 2013

"A Question of Value" is the working title of this blank piece. I thought I'd ask people what they value and then make a visual representation on this grid of bills of the responses. ...

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Conservation and Repair

July 17, 2013

The currency trees have been through a great deal during their construction and transportation. They are resistant, tough, as well as vulnerable and delicate. This is a good view of the reverse side of an early piece where wheat starch paste and japanese mending tissue was used to join each bill to the other. The texture or cockling of the bills is a result of the way the glueing process ...

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w.i.p. Single Line detail

July 09, 2013

Working up this single line painting. Looking at ways to integrate the older veiled layers with the current one and let the decisions made in the past help with the direction the painting will take. This yellow line isn't allowed to touch the broken green lines beneath it, but can freely cross the long thick green or red lines veiled further below it. ...

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cut out patterns and voids

June 16, 2013

I thought these resembled Duchamp Standard Stoppages. I was using them as guides for cut lines on 5/4 pine. Standard Stoppages is a clever title....and the idea not too far from a Drawing Restraint. I looked to see what was left from making these leftovers and found masking tape, artist tape, eraser tape, and eraser tips. I pulled a torn envelope and paper from the trash to use as as grounds ...

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W.I.P. 242 Blanks

June 15, 2013

Organizing and prepping the stack of Double Side Erasures.  I designed a freestanding grid that will contain these blanks after they have been matted and framed. It took 8 months to remove the ink and collect 10 shades of ink dust, (5 grades each of dark green or black).  The removed ink is organized to the left in the small plastic packets.  In the forefront of the picture are 48" long glass ...

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