Muffin Top

This is a new one from my Self Portrait series. I heard the phrase Muffin Top on a infomercial while I was working on this. Great phrase, but isn't the top the best part? Not finished yet but I do like it.

Here Come the Warm Jets

I am coming to realize that one element of this work is to ignore my controlling critical analysis. This refers to my different layers bouncing off of each other with a general lack of the global presentation and my written reference to the song I cant get out of my head. It seams important that the Brian Eno song, Here come the Warm Jets is stuck in my head because I heard it as background music on the marketplace report on NPR. O so touchable yet ethereal at the same time. It passed through my mind that this denial of critical control is similar to the denial of many traditional painting esthetics with “Bad Painting” and the east village of the 80’s.

Force of Impact

Seee Meee

These are different files for a work called self portrait #7. as i dealt with my failure at control I started thinking about installation. This image was made for this blog, but in the gallery, I am starting to see salon stacked images from the same series in white frames and mats so the get a little lost in the wall. You should read the title to the song from Tommy. I was explaining to my annoyed son just this morning that my reference to song lyrics has annoyed my friends for a long time.

GPS

I started out this mourning trying to come up with a system to organize my files so I can keep up with what I am doing. I am creating so many different versions of images that I am having trouble controlling the flow of how I make things on the computer. Before an hour was up I had started working on two images that were finished and were heading to the printed file. I finally gave up controlling anything while working on Parasite because it fits that work. One layer which was meant to be controlled by another layer would begin to take over. Do I stop and save the image as it is or let it be lost what is happening. I have decided that this tension is just what the images on the computer is all about so I have to live with it. I will try to find a creative GPS but I am afraid that Doris Day takes the control.

Quitting Time

One of the problems with my computer art is that I never know when its finished and even then it could morph into something completely different. You will notice the jockey image which was laying dormant when I found it and used it for my logo. With its rebirth it floated around in the computer either and is now finished.

An Idea GROWS

These works show the progression or should I say the organic expansion of an idea. I have tried to tell you about the order of the process to make these work and it is impossible separate out the steps.