Some old paintings

Now that the two art events I have been relentlessly hyping have commenced and happened (I mean, respectively, the Train Car Project show and Memory Cloud - see my prior posts below) I have had the leisure to document some of my older work, which I am hoping to rework, recontextualize and reinvestigate in the coming months, via the magic of Finalcut Pro and Logic Pro 8. Expect me to post the results of this undertaking.

In the meantime, I would like to introduce you to some of these older specimens so that those of you who are unfamiliar with my recurrent motifs and aesthetic methodology can see where I am coming from. Above is a painting called "Megatrops", based loosely on a carved wood sculpture of the the same creature.

The following are from a series called "Strata and Vortices" that I painted about three years ago (I can't believe it has been so long!), a few months after taking a life-changing trip out West to, among other divine places, the Cascade range of volcanos in Oregon, Washington and California.




Above is a typical work from this series.



Here is one of the last in the series, as the series currently stands.



And one last one, a favorite of mine.

I will give y'all one last image today, a strange piece, which consists of a frame with a painting in it, which in turn has a frame in it. This frame itself holds a painting. This inner painting depicts a scene in which a frame of sorts either delineates a window, a painting or a mirror - I am not telling which. I call this painting Three Generations.




More to come, but this is it for tonight.

I will liveblog the last debate tomorrow as Barack Obama drives the nails even deeper into the coffin of John McCain's campaign - feel free to join me. I will try to post some more older work as well.

Thanks for looking.

Shuddering Noise Machine