In 2009 Cosmote had become a beautiful discipline for me. Early this year, however, I shifted from my small, manageable note-pad-sized sheets to a ginormous multi-panel piece. My pace was pretty good, and I did have a target finishing date. As that date neared I realized just how unrealistic finishing this piece was and had [...]
I don’t know what you see, but when I pulled out this little cosmote my friend Floyd said, “Oooh, is that Avatar!?”. This one was mostly done long before I saw the movie. Actually, the main face that gave him that reaction was cut from an old notebook and other doodles were filled in around [...]
For a year of crisis and tragedy I can safely say that I’ve fought through victoriously and can even (already) look back with fond memories. I started out 2009 unemployed with a 5 month old baby girl. By gratitude, grace, humility and some good connections I’m now employed (doing what I enjoy even) with a [...]
Here’s a couple pieces of Cosmote that I swept up off the cutting room floor. There are some revelations appearing in the trims and corners of these Cosmote studies that are leading me into a new visual dimension. I’m not anticipating new scientific discoveries, but I’m excited to go down my own rabbit hole of [...]
This is Chun Migal. He’s one of my co-workers with ‘The State’. He’s facing lay-offs and, after 27 years of service, is realizing that his time may have been better spent doing graffiti (or something creative) (and edgy). His realization that sometimes hard times come too easy is only his own perspective. Others had to [...]
My meditation: There is a wave that appears as the wave of our life. It is ingrained with much ebb and flow that appear to have a cohesion, and a tangible, reasonable consistency. Symmetry. But behind the wave is a deeper wave that takes even more prominence, but somehow is less honored as the true [...]
This little, curly-q, cursive-inspired ship just sailed its way from deep in the cosomotes; from a sketchbook several years old. I’ve always thought it would make a cool little logo. I’m sure I’ll use for something meaningful some day. For now it’s just a reminder that I’ve gotta keep sailing on through the ocean of [...]
This last weekend I tried my hand at organizing the, first ever, Artist’s Commune Weekend. Not that artist’s working, or even living together in a commune is a new idea, but I’ve had a vision for about 3 years to have artist’s and musicians come together and, basically, camp out over Memorial Day weekend. Everyone [...]
He doesn’t look too “wild” does he? Over the weekend I watched Into the Wild. I’d heard fragments and murmurings of Chris McCandless’ adventure over the years, but I’ve never really known his story. Pretty wild! huh,… no pun intended. It’s inspiring, I guess. I love the unbridled idealism which he pursued. But you realize [...]
This is an old doodle I found in the annuls of my sketchings. I’m pretty sure I did it at work one day. As with much of my Cosmote material, it just came to me. It’s no one I know but it does bear some striking resemblances. It’s fun to show it people and ask [...]
