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Risograph prints of “A New Sound” are availabl Risograph prints of “A New Sound” are available in both red and cyan on a nice textured paper. Link is in the expected place. These were printed by the best, Tiny Splendor in LA (thank you Cynthia), and if you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, they’ll also be available in person at the East Bay Print show at Max’s Garage Press in Berkeley. Check out the @tinysplendor page for details. Also, I’m putting the final clutch of “Bad Hands” up as well. Only 3 color combos left now. And thank you to everyone for the overwhelming response to the shirts. More will be made.
Today is the final day to visit the show at @heyth Today is the final day to visit the show at @heythere_projects. Thank you to everyone who has done so already and said nice things about it. Just for today, I’ll put the link to the full show again in my profile. Some works from the exhibition With titles in order of slide 1. Last Bit 2. The Woods IV 3. Happy Body Cat 4. Erosion 5. Six Energies 6. Family Tree 7. Personas 8. Friends 4 Ever 9. Full Hana 10. Visitor Day Thank you Hey There and @ryanheshka, it’s been an honor and very fun to have a show with you
The Dog With Talking Spots Gouache, wax pastel, c The Dog With Talking Spots Gouache, wax pastel, colored pencil and screenprint on paper. I wrote a story that isn’t ready yet with a dog communicating strangely with their environment, but here’s me trying to capture the feeling of it. This piece can be seen in person in @heythere_projects for a little while longer
Six Energies This drawing made of six drawings co Six Energies This drawing made of six drawings contains many seeds that grew into a lot of what I’ve been working on in the past year. Some of the things you see in here are echoed throughout the show at @heythere_projects. “Future Channels” with @ryanheshka continues to exhibit out in Joshua Tree at @heythere_projects. Only a couple of days left to gather all the clues
Hello everyone the “New sound” and “Bad Hand Hello everyone the “New sound” and “Bad Hands” shirts are ready for you online All tees are unisex and available in sizes SMALL up to XXL and the link is in profile Special thanks to @forgeartmagazine / @heavymannerslibrary for the printing and to @akocastuera for the modeling
Keeping with tradition, my dumbest drawings of the Keeping with tradition, my dumbest drawings of the year have been flung into the annual post-it show at @giantrobotstore. Post It Show 18 is curated by @giantrobot and @marktodd and it opens todayyyyyyy
“Impermanent Collection” Graphite on paper C “Impermanent Collection” Graphite on paper Composed as a memory box of mundane but emotionally charged fragments, this drawing was the basis for a 2019 concert poster commissioned by the band @thenational. Some images were interpreted from “I Am Easy to Find”, the short film Mike Mills made to accompany the album of the same name, and some images are my own additions. It’s on view now in “Future Channels” at @heythere_projects with many more works by myself and @ryanheshka
“A New Sound” shirts in 2 colors will be avail “A New Sound” shirts in 2 colors will be available for the first time today at the @heavymannerslibrary Holiday Zone. Prints and zines and then much more from many other local makers will be there for your perusal. Shirts are modeled by @akocastuera and Raleigh the folding bike, Ako’s latest new boyfriend. Thank you A & R! Ako and I will be tabling together both days. Come by and say hi!
Good people with good stuffs for you tomorrow and Good people with good stuffs for you tomorrow and Sunday down at the wonderful @heavymannerslibrary. Support makers in your community at the Holiday Zone, 12-7 pm on both Nov 26 & 27. I’ll have new shirts and prints along with some now harder to find zines, prints and more. See you there!
Birder and Cat Person are drawings you can see at Birder and Cat Person are drawings you can see at @heythere_projects and then maybe you can put them in your house someday. I’m putting a link in one of those places you know to look to see all the works of the show. Image 1: a bird in profile is connected, maybe even fused, to the top of a human head which looks straight out at you and, by its expression, seems to be enjoying things. The mouth of the human face is open where inside a small egg incubates on the tongue. Or maybe it waits to be dispensed? Or eaten? What is this relationship? Image 2: The graphic shape of a cat in profile, its tail up and bent over its own body which is morphed together with a human head whose face looks out at you. The face has a funny expression on it. It seems happy but there’s something else there. This person’s brain has been altered. No doubt it is crawling with worms, both physical and metaphysical, that cats have probably deposited into it somehow. This person is in heaven but has also stepped in fresh vomit next to the bed in the middle of the night. The backgrounds are filled with a textured and intense carmine red, while graphically the negative space the red creates is the positive shape of the animals and heads, allowing the cream white of the paper to be the color of the figures. Minimal rendering adds the details which define the human faces and features of the animals. This took many, many sketches to reduce the final works to their most essential elements. Applause please.
A Family Tree For our haunted past and future “Future Channels” opens tonight! At @heythere_projects! Arts by me and @ryanheshka! We will be in attendance
“Friends 4 Ever” A new drawing for the Future “Friends 4 Ever” A new drawing for the Future Channels” show with @ryanheshka, opening tomorrow night at @heythere_projects in Joshua Tree For a preview to all works email heythereprojects@gmail.com Or DM me if you like though my response time will be spotty. I’ll be all over the place for the next couple of days
“Full Hana” A page of flowers for you in “F “Full Hana” A page of flowers for you in “Future Channels”, a show at @heythere_projects in Joshua Tree this Saturday with @ryanheshka. Opening reception is Saturday night, Nov 12, from 6-9 pm For a preview of all works email heythereprojects@gmail.com
Happy Body Cat is a drawing about how cats are goo Happy Body Cat is a drawing about how cats are good at moving Qi around and it will be one of many of my drawings at @heythere_projects in Joshua Tree this weekend for a show with the fun work of @ryanheshka. The exhibition opens Saturday, Nov 12, why don’t you come?
“Ghost Tree” Mixed media on panel (papier-mach “Ghost Tree” Mixed media on panel (papier-mache, plaster, glue, sand, gravel, pumice gel, matte-medium, acrylic gouache, paper, wood) 4’ x 6’ This piece was commissioned by a family whose only direction to me was that they wanted something that felt good for friends and family to gather around, something that welcomed people to their home. A beautiful request! I had been thinking about family trees, tree as home, tree as altar, “Tree Of Life” imagery from various cultures and time periods, and the good old fun of a decorated tree, and working out how these feelings and ideas could come together. I began playing with imagery that spoke of bounty and growth, bursting life, death and transformation, generations and regeneration, while calling up that feeling from how objects and images that live with your family can haunt your childhood and fill your head with wild stories.
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Un-claimable whos and whats in the lost and found Un-claimable whos and whats in the lost and found
regenerative poison life death blurst spread from regenerative poison life death blurst spread from Sketchbook 96
action plants for fantasy forest action plants for fantasy forest
Life forms and blue scapes from Sketchbook 96 Life forms and blue scapes from Sketchbook 96
Drawings from camping Drawings from camping
Red Cave II Red Cave II
Blue eruption Blue eruption
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