Work 3: My Knee

This is the knee of a body training for its first marathon. While most of the body is undergoing physical improvement, the knee is beginning to regress. I took a photograph for a better look. It did not capture the the feeling of the knee. So in desiring a more honest photograph, I digitally manipulated the image. Sometimes the camera falls short of the truth.

Work 2: I Want to be an Artist

This video is silly, and equally sincere. I love the moody introspective cinema of Europe. And here is my first effort at emulating it. While a film is generally presented in its maker's native language, my experience with foreign film has never been native. Here, the titles are in English, but the audio is adjusted to be universally foreign.

Work 1: The 52 Step

This is the year I become an artist.

Somewhere there is a conversation taking place concerned with what makes an artist, or art. I could pull up my scrap heap of ideas and maybe peer onto the table of such discourse. Or I could stack a realized body of work and engage the discussion. At present I do not have this stack. At one piece a week for fifty-two weeks, I intend to prove myself an artist. ...or a man with a stack of stuff.

Until now, artist as concept only. A mind without a body of work. This year I will grow a body, one piece at a time. Given the weekly deadline, the emphasis is on quantity over quality, though hopefully the two can overlap.

This site will work as my open sketchbook, gallery, or whatever forum seems most appropriate. Take a look, check back, share your thoughts. Both the52step and myself are a work in progress...