looking up

Process

Here is a link to the draft of a video that my friend, Noah Stout, and I are working on. We plan on developing it more. Warning, I'm not wearing any clothes in this, so ya. Don't show the kids.

Peel

Also check out Noah's other work at shortnstout.net

a photograph of myself taken from far far away

I had some revelations the other day about this work I am doing with skin. For a while I have been frustrated because of the multiple directions the subject of skin has to offer. I was feeling that I should find the most interesting one and go with it. But it's not about what's interesting it's about not knowing who I am.

The skins are self portraits. They are me but not me. I have always been interested in the idea of constant change and skin is constantly changing. I am always transforming. Always letting going of my past self.

And it's a painful process, but a pleasurable pain. Almost like pulling a splinter out of your finger. Actually peeling the glue off my body is strangely reminiscent of adolescence. It's an uncomfortable transformation. Something that happens to you. Sometimes you want it sometimes you don't and sometimes you need help but others you don't. There is a sense of un-harnessable control.

just bubbles

experiments in skin

there ain't no photoshop here

work from the "Hello My Name Is" show

Pogo and Scooter

Gender Roles and Gestures. A Pogo Stick and a Scooter. Switch.

This is a collaborative piece I did with a friend some months ago.

from some reading i've been doing

"While we agree that artwork, like other nonverbal forms of expression, may under some circumstances constitute speech for First Amendment purposes, we believe that the First Amendment has only limited application in a case like the present one where the artistic expression belongs to the government rather than a private individual . . . In this case, the speaker is the United States Government. Serra relinquished his own speech rights in the sculpture when he voluntarily sold it to GSA." -judge Jon O. Newman

This was concerning Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, which was installed at the Federal Plaza, New York 1981 and destroyed March 15, 1989. P.s. the GSA is the United States General Services Administration.

first things first

Here are some images from my portfolio.