In case you missed it, last night was the launch party for vol 19 of Kansas City Voices literary magazine. I was there because they had selected one of the drawings I had put forward for publication in this issue. I was also among the contributors who were invited to speak briefly on their contribution to the issue.
Read MoreAs we close in on the last few days of 2023, I have to tell you all that its been a busier year than most of you will ever know. My world has undergone some radical personal changes and it has definitely been a ride. Those who know the details already know…
Read MoreLately I just haven’t felt super jazzed to paint. I think the residual baggage from the situation I’m coming out of has kind of left me in a mode where the setup and cleanup part of painting has been unappealing enough to functionally squash any drive I had to paint once I’m sitting in front of the canvas…
Read MoreReview of “Y BOTHER?” by John and Meredith Kirby. A fine book to leave on your coffee table to make your guests worried about you.
Read MoreI’ve been rather significantly delinquent with staying on top of this blog, but its my blog, so fuck it. I can do that.
Read MoreThe interview I gave to Canvas Rebel was published today
Read MoreApparently you guys really like when I do book reviews, based on the singular review I’ve ever taken the time to write out, so this time I thought I’d do something a little more light-hearted.
That doesn’t mean its clean, mind you…
Read MoreAs we’re closing in on the and of the year, this seemed like as good a time as any to revisit the various projects and shenanigans of 2022…
Read MoreI don’t know just how new of a thing this is, or if social media has simply made it more obnoxiously apparent, but I’ve been noticing an uptick in recent years in rallying around talking points to the tune of “free speech”…
…usually by people who don’t have the first clue what that actually means.
Read MoreThis will be a book review for The Little Book of Satanism: A Guide to Satanic History, Culture, and Wisdom by author La Carmina…
Read MoreWith one more event coming up this Friday, that will basically wrap up my busy season for 2022 in terms of events. Its been a busy season, with prep for three events, two Halloween costumes, at least four paintings, packing, shipping, dropping off, one Halloween party, all while still battling a severe depressive episode.
Read MoreFriday night was the opening nights for Doom in Bloom at the Smalter Gallery (Kansas City), as well as Dangerous Lullabies 8 at the Dole Manor (Chicago). I was not able to personally attend the Chicago show opening because I was already committed to The Smalter Gallery opening and its just not possible for me to be in two cities on the same evening.
Read MoreI took a long weekend this past weekend and basically spent the entire thing out in the workshop. It has been the most therapeutic four days in recent memory. I’ve literally been blasting music and making shit for the past four days and I feel amazing right now.
Read MoreI’ve been chasing the ghosts that haunt the edges of my vision again. Hoping to make them real. They’re not malign…some even show concern…but they are governed by laws and needs that keep them out of reach. But I feel like if I could just catch one, it would disperse some of this cloud that has settled around me.
Read MoreIn response to a conversation in a twitter space today, I decided to compile this list of resources that I use as an artist, both as a means of connecting with buyers and patrons and as a means to reach new people not part of my normal circles as well as means to protect your work online. I’m going to attempt to group these resources by platform…
Read MoreI had a pretty productive weekend. I got the “spine” drawing matted and into a frame in my stash that I had earmarked for it and it looks great in it.
I also finally made the first couple of test casts from the “book end” sculpture mold, in two different metal finishes.
Read MoreThe air is thick tonight. Thick and humid in a way that takes me back to my younger days, scribbling shitty art in a shitty apartment without air conditioning in a shitty subdivided house with only a sweat-stained futon for furnishing.
Read MoreI was part of a conversation today about whether or not we believed in the concept of a “god”. I posited that while I don’t discount the possibility of something so far beyond us that we can’t even properly comprehend it, I don’t necessarily think of it/they/whatever in the context of a god, nor do I think that it really has anything to do with us.
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