Diffusion

My latest piano piece. Its composed of the repetitive, vigorous rhythmic playing of single keys of piano, and then the digital stretching of these sounds into pulsating waves which blur the initial pressing of the key into the next. While also dealing with the perception of action in time, it's based on the idea of paralleling the act of diffusion and behavior of gases to measuring sound in a spatially volumetric way. I think it might be neat to somehow be able to release and control visible gases into the atmosphere of a gallery, creating gas sculpture/installations which sink and swell to correspond to this musical idea. Anyways, here's a link to the composition:

http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/file.php?fid=10645

hope you enjoy

5:53 AM

things connect better when im too tired to remember anything

Final

The following is my photography that I submitted as my final project in my black and white photography class, accompanied by the essay of explanation. It was my first attempt to write an artist statement type essay. It is a bit wordy, but received hella hyphe praise from my professor; both the essay and the photos.


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Indigenous Architecture

Lately I have been dwelling on my childhood, and reapplying elements of it into my life as a young man. I started this project knowing that I wanted to dwell on something that I had created as a child, and reexamining the significance of the object as well as how the social significance that the object or theme plays on a social scale that I was unaware of as a child.
Growing up as the son of an archaeologist, I was frequently going to museums, going to dig sites, or even watching documentaries at home about ancient civilizations. At the same time that I was completely and utterly fascinated with the idea of a maze, I became fascinated with the different architectures of civilizations throughout time, and how they differed. I loved to create small villages, or draw floor plans for households. I would even think about the type of people that would live in those spaces, and what they would need and want in order to live in the structure which I designed for them. My earliest creations began as just a reflection of my dream house or imaginary hideaway, but then developed into something completely outside of myself, where I was creating civilizations and social networks, enemies, and customs for people based around the houses or maps that I would draw. It even got to the point where I would create imaginary spaces in which my playground friends could escape into every recess; an imaginary space where, yes, I dictated it, but my decisions were based on the logic of the environment I created. Looking back on the whole idea now, I have found so many levels that I was completely unconscious of at the time.
I decided I wanted to build and photograph small civilizations loosely based around imaginary architecture I had created as a child. These are heavily influenced by native American, as well as ancient European architecture. I began to then think about the significance of architecture, and why it is different around the globe. Architecture is based on available material, as well as necessity and need, which all are based on the surrounding environment. I then began to think about then, why I am making these miniature architectural and cultural studies.
In an age where ancient ruins juxtapose modern skyscrapers and industrialized nations produce their own materials for architecture, the necessity and surroundings are now dictating our structures less and less. I began to think about all of the materials in my own immediate surroundings, and realize that I have so many different textures and materials in such a concentrated space, that I don’t have to leave my house to fulfill my needs. It was in this that I decided I wanted to not only build these architectural structures, but build them based on found material I found lying around in my own house. The lack limitation for me proved to be a parallel of the limitation imposed on ancient cultures, which didn’t have plastics or paper to use arbitrarily.
In creating these cities I then also began to think about how the scale was significant, and the importance of the miniature. It is a space in which I can manipulate and control tiny details. I wanted to address, photographically, the architectures in a way that felt as though we were in them, or approaching them. In doing this I feel it gives the viewer a better idea of what it might be like to enter and inhabit that space; a space which in reality, can be seen in its entirety by any human being. It is then my necessity for imagination and escape of reality that has not only built, but inhabits, and lives its everyday life as an avatar of my own self expression in my own made-up reality.

NOOOOOO WAAAAAAAYYY?!

Lately I've been so caught up in things I haven't taken the time to really think out loud to myself like i normally do. the other night though, right before i went to bed, I had a series of ideas that kept me awake. I feel like I am able to reach an equilibrium now, where I don't have to completely go off my rocker in order to achieve articulated ideas. Granted I am not generating as many ideas because I am not completely submersed in them all of the time, but it's nice to just experience without thinking too much some times too. Watching the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air every night in order to keep myself from thinking began to get very tiring(not to mention my bed is way more comfortable than the couch... although.... I have gotten compliments on the comfortability of my couch... I must say, it is quite soft and cozy....) But ANYWAYS, I'm gonna be submitting a triptych into a juried art show this December.. If i get in and go to the finals I will post the piece and the artist statement here on the blog. It's the piece I have kept for the most part under wraps. I think I get kinda paranoid about posting what I consider to be my best work online... it's so easy to just take pictures and share them all around you know... maybe im just kinda crazy or something.. I dunno.. it concerns me at times. In addition to the juried show, but a little less important, I am going to have a piece of art in a gallery in Long Beach named Koo's. I believe the piece is going up on January 3rd, but not positive. It's an installation.. and possibly a painting as welll.. but i will get pictures of either(or both) and post up on here too.

I'm SO excited!! going to Joshua tree with the photo department from CSULB on the 10-14 of January. Gaby is coming too and it's gonna be freakin awesome! I'm gonna have my new camera by then (crossed fingers) and i'll be able to really get some beautiful shots. We're gonna eat a tarantula like Bear from Man vs. Wild... Gonna be awesome.

I wish I had some images I wanted to include in this post.. I'll have pictures of my photography final up. It got hella great reviews from my professor. He told me it was perfect... It was a bitch battling dust... they were very minimal in form and shape, but very very heavy on content. I wrote a very eloquent artist statement for the piece, that was both complex but clear. I'll include that when i put the photos up.


CHRISTMAAAAAAAASSSSS!!!!

ONLY 6 BUCKS!

The Picnic



















Here is an abstracted study of color and texture involving the use of spaghetti:

Observing Transitions in a Subconscious Product of My Own Reality

I've been basing my work off of creating messes, and the psychoanalytical importance of childhood latent inhibition. Unfortunately I cannot post the video of my conscious creation of this space which is an integral part of this underlying premise, however I can at least show you a sample of the overlying premise.

The main sequence of 4 photographs illustrates my beliefs concerning the explanation of the sequencing and transitions in dreams. It is in this blatant disregard for outside stimuli or research off which I base this work to correlate directly into conscious explanations of our physical world are often explaned through imaginative practice or the need to explain. In this search for a truth that is true to my own person I am further understanding the my world uniquely through my own eyes, which then connects to the idea that dreams are a product of our own receptivity in our waking life. Dreams are sequences of absorbed stimuli which are product of our own waking reality. Therein, dreams are the cycling of all stimuli we have experienced or thought about consciously or subconsciously throughout the day. The dreams you remember are the ones in which your 5^th stage of sleep is disturbed, this is the state in which you enter R.E.M. If you are brought out of that state (this doesn’t always mean fully awake), then it is my contention that the narrative dream that you remember is the minds way of constructing an understandable link among all of the thoughts that were cycling at that time. The awkward transitions in dreams are a product of disconnected ideas being forced together into an understandable narrative. It is in this sequence of 4 photographs that I centralize the idea of a particular transition in symbols and narrative style (i.e. the transition of a mood in a dream), which is all a product of a performance piece which I did in the room prior, symbolizing my waking actions producing subconscious cycles of thought. The performance created the installation which was the foundation for the "thoughts" to cycle.