Prison................

of Regulated Thought. Received, processed and fed into the box we occupy.

Mixed media. Approx 15-inches high x 5 inches wide x 4-inches deep.

Gull............

.......drawn in Paint.NET with a graphic tablet.

Merry Christmas............

and Season's Greetings. Ho HO HO!

The King .....

........of Yesterday at About 2PM. Ceramic. 9-inches tall.

A constant of................

........crows. Acrylic & mixed media on panel. Approx 22" x 22".

Conceptual piece based on Euler's Number.

Procrastinator's Bizarre Bazaar.........

............at the Coffee House Cafe this Friday & Saturday.....noon till nine.

Art, Craft and Miscellaneous Makings.

Shows...............

............current and upcoming:

Currently I have pieces in the Something Red exhibit in downtown Salem. My work is in the Wild Pear Restaurant and in the Calusa Gallery.

I have work at the Rountree Gallery Holiday Market -- look for the strange little ceramic masks. The market is on the first floor to the right. Link to the gallery's web site HERE

January 7, 2011: Emerge Oregon. 6-10 PM at the Coffee House Cafe on Liberty Street, Salem.

January - March 2011: I shall be exhibiting pieces in the main downstairs area of the Rountree Gallery at 241 State Street, Salem. Opening is slated for January 15th.

Dancing LEDs......

via the good old 555 & 4017 ICs. These circuits take forever to make doing point-to-point wiring.....but was going for a small circuit footprint. Constructed for a friend's in-progress Steampunk piece.

Something................

..............Red, the annual (mostly) AIA-sponsored downtown art show debuted tonight. The juried work certainly lived up to the show and many wonderful pieces are currently hanging in various downtown locations. My pieces are at the Wild Pear Restaurant ("1.Reduction" - honorable place winner in the show) and at the Calusa Gallery (shrine, "Door Beneath Tomorrow").

12/2: photos from the event are posted HERE

Also debuting tonight is the Holiday Gallery at the Rountree Gallery Upstairs. My mini-masks are available at the Holiday gallery. I'll be participating in the gallery proper (downstairs) in January.

Raven Shaman............

#2 for 2010....and joining the unkindness of the larger raven Shaman clan.

Raven Shaman.........

.....the first I've managed to create in 2010. More to come if I'm fortunate. Sold.

When Santa's Elves.............

..............go bad.

Something Red..............

show upcoming on December First Wednesday downtown (which happens to be December 1st). I've entered two pieces - "1.Reduction" and "Door Beneath Tomorrow shrine". The show runs the month of December.

A Multitude of Mini.............

Masks awaiting firing....

And fired, but awaiting acrylic finishing.

50 Interesting Facts............

About pi.


http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/07/03_pi.html


pi

pi
pied
pie-dog

3.14159...et cetera
stuffing E Fudd stuttered
and never quite
quite pinned, you
know, like the fabled
butterfly of chaos
in a blue killing jar

no. no. yes.
indeterminately irrational
gleefully grimaced

the only cross borne
betwix, between,
beyond the eyes - this
bearing of responsibility
too holey
alone
within the stations
of unwritten circumference
plotted, r² plodded

an orbit eccentric, elastic and
pie-dog howled
to pied stars unseen

pi

Myriad Masks........

assembling for roll call.....built a display stand for the Holiday Gallery coming up in a few weeks.

More Mini................

............Santaesque masks. 3-4 inches high. Ceramic & acrylic.

Emerge Oregon.........

...........work shown. New "Transference Shrine", "Murder in Our Town" and the collaborative Circumference.

Emerge................

Friday, November 5th at the Coffee House Cafe. 7 - 10PM.

http://www.emergeoregon.com/

Wee little Santa..........

heads/masks. Roughly 3 - 4 inches tall. Ceramic and acrylic. Getting ready for the Holiday show at Rountree Gallery.

Collaborative............

effort....by Hirofumi, John Stromme, unknown others and myself. Added all the white bits, signature "house" shapes and a bit of the scraping down. I have no idea if it's going to be worked on further...but at this point I title it "Circumference".

Happy Halloween............

....

Magdalena.............

Warrior Princess, Ninja of the Night, feline friend. 2002 - 2010.

Layers...............

of a sunset. Cape Lookout State Park.

Sunrise..............

....it's all in the light.

Roadside Attraction......

found unexpectedly. Fortunately there was no traffic, so I had time to change lenses.

A sign.........

handy for all occasions. This particular one is located just beyond the mid-point of the Cape Lookout trail.

New Gallery..............

.............in Salem. The Rountree Gallery at 241 State Street between Commercial and Front streets (downstairs).

Tranference.........

........study in acrylics. Roughly 8 x 10 inches on board. Destined to be larger yet.

VAST 2010..........

Yoda.....self designated Greeter for visitors to the studio. We did convince him to give up his lightsaber and rely only on the Force.


Sundry work by yours truly.

The tour was a success in all ways. We would like to offer a sincere thank you to our visitors for their comments and support.

VAST 2010............

....Hiro working on floorcloths.

.........entry into the studio (left side).

Visual Artists.............

..........Studio Tour (VAST). I'm partnering with Hiro Glover in this open studio tour on Saturday and Sunday (18th and 19th of September).

2970 Phipps Lane NE • Salem, OR 97301

See the website for details.

"Echoes .........

............of Green". I have two works in this juried show at Enid Joy Mount Gallery in Keizer, Oregon. Through the 29th of September.

"Shaman Vision" and "Shrine: Lodge of Lost Summers".

"Shaman Vision" has been awarded 2nd place in the show.

Murder.........

In Our Town. Work in progress -- snippet of left panel. Acrylic on panel.

New Story.............

.........by my good friend, TG Browning at the World of Myth web-zine:

The Fourth Trickster

Crow Place...........

.....Like Home. Acrylic & collage on wood. Approx 9 x 5 inches. Sold.

This Friday...............

This Friday Sept 3rd, in CHC's warehouse the Emerge Oregon Art Series will host an interactive art installation called, "The Silouhettes of Salem". The display will feature spotlight created silouhettes to demostrate the art concepts of light, shadow and dimension. Come create fun shapes on our walls using markers and chalk. Enter our raffle $1.00 per ticket, to win original art by Salem artists Bob Dodson and Mark Bethel. Live music by DJ Broken.

As always this show is free and open to the public! Invite your friends.

More information: www.emergeoregon.com or call or text Jonathan at 503-798-0771

Miscellaneous................

and sundry mug shots of recent masks.....most around 6-inches in height. Ceramic.

VAST......................

Coming soon: Visual Artists Studio Tour 2010

September 18 & 19th. All information is presented on the link.

Crow & Houses.............

............II. Acrylic on panel. 18" x 24".

Bush Park Art Fair.............

...........Artists In Action silent auction, "Outside the Box".

Auction..............

At the AIA booth during the Bush Park Art Fair. "Outside the Box"

I've donated "Soul Box" and "Shrine #7" to the cause.

More...................

fireworks. Typical store-bought Oregon-legal fireworks photographed @ F/22 on Bulb (exposures around 10-plus seconds).

The Dance..........

..........of gunpowder.

EMERGE OREGON..............

art Show tonight at the Coffee House Cafe on Liberty....downtown.

6:30 to 10-ish.

Soul Box, crow painting, shaman masks, Atomic Tom......

Here Be Dragons...........

at the Oregon Garden.

Soul Box..............

............operational. A box for holding the essential essence of selfness - extracted to digitial information, scanned and tidied up for transmission to the next stage. This piece has 3 separate LED circuits - lights in the 3 vacuum tubes, an ultraviolet LED buried within the mask (visible through the nose and mouth) and the white 'sequencing' LEDs that scan the face, then proceed upwards through the 'confessional' circuit (red LEDs).

Mixed media. Approximate size is 20-inches x 17-inches x 6-inches. Sold at the AIA "Outside the Box" auction.

2.Reduction...............

........."Eyes Whisper Entropy". Mixed media. 38-inches x 20-inches. Sold.

Shop.............

.........still life. Bits and pieces littering the north window of my shop.

270 Degrees.............

of the Emerge Oregon gallery space. Replete with several wandering artists - half ghosted, strange attracted....visible for only a few hours, then back to the shadows.

Emerge Show Tonight

http://www.emergeoregon.com/

The Gallery at............

The Market in McMinnville. This is an incredible space with so much promise for the future.

At the .............

beach........between rain showers.

OHM..................

.......resistance....the mark of those who fight the Digital....the amputation of the analog into ones and zeros. This is the wavelength of the waking world versus the cyber.

Feeling.....................

...........groovy. Life-sized ceramic mask with Groove Tube. Ready to amplify all inputs. Sold.

2.Reduction.......................

............continues. In progress. Roughly 3-feet wide. Acrylic, transfers, Flex-All, et cetera.