MY WORK! MY PRIDE! MY JOY!
I will be a bit more critically analytical of my own pieces than of the others included, just a heads up. See below.
Mine!
Mine!
Another Matisse! Collected during museum work.
Mine!
What's going on here?
Parking Receipts!
An edition of Views of Mount Fuji
Yet another Matisse!
Postcard and frame purchased for dorm decor, made their way here all these (three) years later.
Yet another Matisse!
Go ahead, you can say it.
I took a photo of a payphone at Taft Point in Yosemite National Park. The type used on it was Helvetica, the Mother Font. It was blue. Surrounded by trees. Out of place, really. The plastic casing of the phone was probably once white, but it yellowed gracefully. Like it was yellow on purpose.
The three-colon smiley. I added a shortcut in my phone ages ago to change ":))" to "⁝)," you know, a set of characters that doesn't exist on the keyboard. I like to think it has become somewhat of a trademark of mine, but I'm not able to make that distinction for myself.
The asterisk motif. You will see it frequently, in fact, you probably already have. I am a long time fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, thank you mother. Their symbol, this large, inflated asterisk, is a simple, strong, inconspicuous nod to her.
The Interstate 35 sign. The road I've taken between my parent's house and school a hundred times, sat in traffic, in the rain, at night, been chased by tornadoes, the works. A symbol in itself.
C-41 is a type of film with a specific processing method. I shot on this film for a long time.
3-07. There isn't a year on this date, but I made it the painting in 2021. March 7th.
This painting has about ten layers. It was more of a working document than a painting for a period of time. I brought in the asterisk again, big surprise! The organic shapes come from a Helen Frankenthaler obsession through which I lived while painting the last layer. The color is from my long-standing obsession with red. The asterisk, well, you know where that comes from. The tiny diamonds in the background are from a version of this painting where the subject was a giant blue and yellow strawberry!
From (bottle) top to bottom. These bottle caps are from Lone Star Beers. They only recently started doing pictograms again, and I love these. My mom and I exchange pictures of them each time we encounter one. I have a shortcut on my phone to the website that solves the cap images. For when I really can't figure them out.
The frame of this picture comes from a thrift store, in a set of two when I was shopping for dormitory decor. I drew the image inside on a piece of graph paper, a man looking at a painting with the caption "Looking for someone? You may be doing so for a lifetime or two. Who knows."
