“Groceries” 22 × 16 inches, Crayon on paper
This is a handmade, original work of art NOT A PRINT and NOT AI GENERATED
FREE SHIPPING Shipping takes 3–4 Weeks This ships from San Carlos, California (The San Francisco Bay Area). I use UPS and sometimes US Post.
For “Self Directed,” I’ve been thinking about how much ordinary choices tell us about a person. What we wear, where we shop, how we shop and especially what we buy can give clues to our state of mind and place in the world. Here, I’m in the booze aisle. The clothing, shopping cart and bottles establish a kind of mise en scène, much as a photographer or filmmaker might use a setting and a few carefully chosen objects to introduce a character.
I like wearing a blazer. Even over a tee shirt, it makes me feel better dressed. It’s also how I dress when I’m teaching. The blazer becomes a kind of uniform, changing how students and other people perceive me. Even if I bought it at a thrift shop for twenty dollars, it can still carry that suggestion of status. I’m interested in the difference between what something costs and what it communicates.
The formal stuff is fun to play with too. My upright figure and the cart stretching across the lower part of the sheet form an L-shaped arrangement that anchors the composition. Behind us, the shelves run horizontally, with rows of bottles standing like vertical soldiers. Their repeated shapes fill much of the space. The familiar store interior begins to feel a little surreal, almost liminal.
There’s room for more than one reading of the scene. I could look sad, or I could be psyched to get a tasty beverage. The bottles tell you where I am, but they don’t settle what I’m thinking. I like that uncertainty.
I’m enjoying making these large drawings because I can move back and forth between more finished passages and areas that remain open. Darker shading gives the head, jacket and shelves weight, while other parts depend on contour lines and the paper showing through. The cart’s open structure lets the rows behind it remain visible, adding another layer of lines to the shelves and bottles.
Sometimes I think, if contour line was good enough for masters like Picasso and Matisse, why wouldn’t I use the same vocabulary? I enjoy deciding when an edge needs a line, when a patch of shading can do the work, and when to leave something alone.
“Groceries” 22 × 16 inches, Crayon on paper
This is a handmade, original work of art NOT A PRINT and NOT AI GENERATED
FREE SHIPPING Shipping takes 3–4 Weeks This ships from San Carlos, California (The San Francisco Bay Area). I use UPS and sometimes US Post.
For “Self Directed,” I’ve been thinking about how much ordinary choices tell us about a person. What we wear, where we shop, how we shop and especially what we buy can give clues to our state of mind and place in the world. Here, I’m in the booze aisle. The clothing, shopping cart and bottles establish a kind of mise en scène, much as a photographer or filmmaker might use a setting and a few carefully chosen objects to introduce a character.
I like wearing a blazer. Even over a tee shirt, it makes me feel better dressed. It’s also how I dress when I’m teaching. The blazer becomes a kind of uniform, changing how students and other people perceive me. Even if I bought it at a thrift shop for twenty dollars, it can still carry that suggestion of status. I’m interested in the difference between what something costs and what it communicates.
The formal stuff is fun to play with too. My upright figure and the cart stretching across the lower part of the sheet form an L-shaped arrangement that anchors the composition. Behind us, the shelves run horizontally, with rows of bottles standing like vertical soldiers. Their repeated shapes fill much of the space. The familiar store interior begins to feel a little surreal, almost liminal.
There’s room for more than one reading of the scene. I could look sad, or I could be psyched to get a tasty beverage. The bottles tell you where I am, but they don’t settle what I’m thinking. I like that uncertainty.
I’m enjoying making these large drawings because I can move back and forth between more finished passages and areas that remain open. Darker shading gives the head, jacket and shelves weight, while other parts depend on contour lines and the paper showing through. The cart’s open structure lets the rows behind it remain visible, adding another layer of lines to the shelves and bottles.
Sometimes I think, if contour line was good enough for masters like Picasso and Matisse, why wouldn’t I use the same vocabulary? I enjoy deciding when an edge needs a line, when a patch of shading can do the work, and when to leave something alone.
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