Friday night frenzy

This  is from a couple weeks ago amidst a frenzy of one particular application.

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I love my city

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Anavasthaa Pg. 1(?)

The tentative first page of Anavasthaa is here.  Above is a teaser.  For those who make it through the link, enjoy.  As always comments, criticisms, etc are welcome.

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You can make them come alive

A long time ago when my parents were still together I was drawing at the dinner table one morning.  I don’t remember the drawing, but it was most likely my standard guy with some armor and weaponry.  I remember telling my dad that I wish my drawings could come alive and move.  I remember being shocked when my dad said “You can” and explained that I could make a movie.   I thought of this today while drawing for anavasthaa. My drawings are moving now.

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My Machine

One of Many perhaps.  To map the landscape of my machine?  A snapshot to capture the soft electronic sounds of itunes and clean speed of chrome?

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Yale Summer Program “Statement of Objectives”

I am constantly seeking artistic growth.  As an artist, I feel the need to hone my technical skills because of the vigor it will lend to anything I create. I am actively developing a visual thought process, which enables me to create stronger images. 

Not only do I strive to better understand visual elements in my own work, but also to understand the work of others.  Just like negative and positive spaces, others’ artwork helps to define my own work.

One of my highest priorities is to work with other artists, both institutional and self-taught.  I find collaboration to be essential to my personal artistic growth, driving me to begin the construction of a local, online artist community.  My interest in your summer program stems not only from the classes offered but also from the chance to experience a community with new instructors and classmates.

Through my work I attempt to create my niche in the turbulent art world.  A tumultuous economy combined with rapidly changing technological opportunities has created chaos in my artistic vision.  Honestly, I do not have a strong conceptual core in my recent work; despite that fact that I have the desire and confidence to excel in the art world. 

Before art school, my artwork embodied recurring themes of: war scenes, futuristic architecture, and maps of imaginary worlds.  Art school drove me to seek a greater sense of realism.  This distanced me from my past themes.  Utilizing the visual skills I learned in school, I am revisiting these past themes through a graphic novel I am illustrating.

Armed with a new set of visual skills my goal is to reincorporate my old ideas.  Reusing these themes, I wish to establish strong conceptual ideas to my future work. I hope that this summer program will allow me to grow artistically and develop a foundation as an emerging artist.  

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First of all, the notion of freedom, to me, is a complete fallacy.  On a basic level we are bound by water, food, shelter, and clothing (depending on where you live).  The higher you go up on Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs the less free you become.  Many people are bound by facebook addictions,  their significant other,  their job, etc.  Freedom doesn’t really exist in a pure form although there are varying degrees of choice.

As an artist you are the god of your creation.  You determine how something is build or made down to each brush stroke (unless you are Damien Hirst or an artist with little artist minions.)  I am starting to believe, however, that the higher level of “freedom” that artists are rumored to have is an illussion.  The difference between an artist’s job and an office worker’s job is that the artist has to force him/herself into a work schedule where as an office worker is told what their work schedule in.  In a sense is sort of a self-inflicted loss of freedom.  Being an artist after all is really a entrepreneurial move.

I have always told myself I need to draw more.  Several times I have implimented a draw one hour a day rule, that never really stuck.  After reading this article, however, I have implemented the drawing rule again and it is sticking.  A little bit each day adds up quickly.  Its up to my own self-discipline to follow this rule and make it a habbit.  Sometimes I think that  as an artist you have less “freedom” than others because your job doesn’t start and end 9 to 5.  Its 24/7.  I’m constantly thinking about it.

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Anavasthaa Online

taking aim

The blog Anavasthaa is now online and actually has some interesting posts.  And by interesting posts I mean there is artwork!  Anavasthaa is the home of my latest collaborative art project; a graphic novel.  The purpose of this blog (for me at least; my collaborator is co-authoring) is to create a visual time line where I can reference past ideas.  The hope is that this will inspire richer art, like sifting for gold in a stream.

In addition, I hope people post comments and offer their opinions, critiques, critisisms, ideas, and first impressions.  The blog is as much about learning from the viewer’s opinions as it is documenting the creator’s work.  If people get interested it would in essense blur the lines between ‘viewer’ and ‘creator.’

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Classroom w/o Walls

Here is an example of a series of changes on an image, click to check out the other images that led up to it.

As one of the gallery assistants at the UWM Union Art Gallery I have to organize a show for the atrium space in the union (right in front of the bookstore).  So, in collaboration with Dean Valadez I bring you the Classroom w/o Walls.  This is a totally open to the public collaborative art project based online, but leaking over into the real world.  Every work that someone submits will be displayed in the atrium space.  There will be extra copies of each images so people can actually take down images, alter them (perhaps you draw on it, perhaps you collage it, perhaps make a sculpture out of it and take a photograph.)

I’m not exactly sure the dates of when the artwork will be put up, but sometime in early April until late in the month. Updates are coming with specifics.  Note, anyone anywhere can participate and your work will be shown, it is after all a wiki.  One of the major aspects of this type of collaboration is that it transcends distance and is open to almost anyone (with computer access).

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Gallery Night [Spring]

The next upcoming gallery night [April 17th] I will be showing work along with many other art students at Mark David Grey’s Studio.  The location is here:

338 N Milwaukee Street, Suite 209 on the corner of Milwaukee Street & St. Paul.

These shows at Mark’s studio have, been some of the best gallery night shows I’ve been to.  I hope any of you out there can make it because its sure to be a good time.  Speaking of time, the show starts at 5pm and goes till whenever things die down (maybe around 10pm?)

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