Lizards & a Network
Thursday, February 25, 2021
The lizards underpinning reality.
Art
Self-Portrait with Shoulder Rooster
Saturday, October 10, 2020
(I think it's the same guy as the Svart Höna rooster further down.)
Svart Höna Portraits
Monday, October 05, 2020
Yesterday's spray-painting exercise was to see if I could do stencil prints from photos of my Svart Höna, solid black melanistic chickens, a heritage breed from Sweden. The trick was to see if I could get their facial features to read even though they are pure black. (Even their bones and the insides of their mouths are black.)
A rooster:
And a hen:
Self-portrait
Saturday, October 03, 2020
Spray paint on paper. Self-portrait based on a photo by Emma Dodge Hanson.
Produced in an edition of 8.
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Warning Signs from the Future No. 1: No Drones, Glass Ceiling
Saturday, October 03, 2020
Spraypaint on pizza box.
Stencil Practice
Saturday, October 03, 2020
A self portrait: Stencil , spraypaint on pizzabox. (Getting the hang of cutting stencils for portraiture.)
And a rooster: I think you can probably tell I really loved this rooster.
Lizard Dreams
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Spray paint on pizza box.
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Playing with Peter Stoyko's SystemViz Iconography
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
I have been playing with Peter Stoyko's SystemViz iconography.
SystemViz is a research project by Peter Stoyko exploring how visuals can enhance systems thinking, especially as it relates to inter-disciplinary, collaborative design. Findings are expressed as visual codexes and other applied tools.
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Swimming Across the Social Distance
Saturday, September 26, 2020
Spraypaint on paper.
UPDATE: A few more versions.
A further stage in creation ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020
If you could retreat from the life you live ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020
Reflected
Friday, July 17, 2020
Setting Modifies Character
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Greetings from Dovercourt Park
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
I am waiting out the pandemic in a house overlooking Dovercourt Park in Toronto, doing a lot of art. Here is an example.
I will begin posting more about this in the near term future.
Collage: Goldfish Memoir, April 6, 2015
Monday, April 06, 2015
This collage was created following the instructions for exercise number 5 in Nick Bantock's book The Trickster' Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity. The goldfish was copied from one of the color plates in State of New York Forest, Fish & Game Commission Annual Reports 1904-1905-1906.
Collage: We All Have Two Selves, April 5, 2015
Monday, April 06, 2015
Asking the Wrong Question
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Oppressive governments often lock up writers, artists, intellectuals. They lock them up because such people are dangerous to those in power. In the United States, we mostly don't have that problem. This is partly because of the first amendment, but also because American writers, artist, and intellectuals are mostly tame.
The lack of politics in art and literature is seen as a virtue as though there were a pure aesthetics that could only be tainted by the addition of politics. In the US, this is partly the legacy of McCarthism. While our arts are sometime offensive, they do little to change the structure of power.
And so it comes to me as a shock that in Paris there is a terror attack on cartoonists. Cartoonists? Really? Cartoonists.
Many of my friends and many people I admire seem to feel that is this is a good moment to engage their critical skills, to evaluate the worth of the long and successful careers of the recently deceased cartoonists. In other words, what did these artists do wrong that made people want to kill them? I don't think that's the right question.
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New collage poem, 5/14/13
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Dubious Valentine: Important Tax Document Enclosed (collage 2/10/13)
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Dubious Valentine: You Choice Is Simple (collage 1/21/13)
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Collage 1/14/13: Carried Away
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
New Collages: Dubious Valentines
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
New collages from the past few days.
Two Collage Poems
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Two collage poems by Kathryn Cramer, composed New Year's Day 2013.
Scott Bakal's cover for my Tor.com story "Am I Free to Go?" makes Illustration Age!
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
I knew this illustration was great. Apparently Illustration Age agrees. They have featured it.
Scott Bakal's cover for "Am I Free to Go?"
Friday, October 12, 2012
Scott Bakal has done an amazing cover for my forthcoming Tor.com story, "Am I Free to Go?" And he has a detailed post on the process of compostion on his blog, complete with preliminary sketches.
Not only is this a strong piece of graphic design that is impressive in its own right, but it also is a sophisticated reference to one of the more psychologically intense moments in the story. Just wait until you read it. Then you will understand quite how good this cover illustration is!