Staged

More of these things: drawing motivated by scene descriptions in early modern plays. These come from The Betrothal, by Maurice Maeterlinck: something about a curtain, a door with a "formidable lock," and caverns leading to a miser's den. These pages are part of a work in progress. Will I ever include text from these plays? I'm not sure about that yet.

More Directives

 

 

 

Drawn after Maurice Maeterlinck's The Bluebird

 

Directives

 

 Sketchbook with text from August Strindberg. Drawings distracted observations from our front porch.
 

Commonplace Highlights: Mary Ann Caws, Apollinaire

 

 

 

Caws, Mary Ann. Metapoetics of the Passage: Architextures in Surrealism and After. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

Louvered hideaways

Fraught with What's Wrought

Grates Mark the Spot

Buried Treasure: Call Before You Dig

The Shelf Holds My Interests

These are drawings I made between a few trips I made this past year to help my parents move and sell the house I grew up in. I salvaged a few forgotten belongings but these indecipherable scrawlings are largely devoted to reflections on a handful of objects that I've been carting around since childhood. Bidding this home farewell, put me into meditative high gear. That's what's happening here.

What's there to know about it? Wood, wrought iron, joinery, reappropriation of salvaged building materials: those materials and compulsions were synthesized into an idiosyncratic stew by the men in my family: my dad especially--but my grandfather and brother too, no doubt.

Soft Rock for Wood

Up a Storm: Fourth Wall

Open Mic Closed Mic

up a storm IV

Stelling van Amsterdam

Do limits have the power to seek limits? My name pushes these pages around that cul de sac.

 

 

Listening Looks

These are the covers for some music CDRs I've made over the years. I've created a separate page to house sample songs and some information about the projects. To get an earful, visit the "Homespun Music" tab at the top of the page.

lip to rest on

A Lip To Rest On. 2009.  Drawings and daydreams unfold (and close up, and unfold again, and again) in this homage to an architectural oddity I discovered in the closet of an apartment I used to live in.
B&W photocopy, 7 pp., stapled ,6 x 4.5”

This booklet can be found at Printed Matter.