welcome page

i’m working on the welcome page for my new website. some of these images are going to be buttons and on hover will change to a word to show you to which section of the site the link will lead you. it's going to be centered on a white page

head-wrap sketches

sketches for Stacey Boucher-Merritt head-wraps' web-site.

Dig This

somewhat over-due documentation of my 2nd piece in this weekly Boston publication.

matchbox lover gift

about 2x actual size:

"...and we do whatever we want"

How my pieces appeard in Los Angeles' Far West Almanac, Vol. 2, Issue 10, November/December 2009

indebted to Robert Crumb

for the eye.




take the pyramid apart

The Cover

The Gogol cover for Far West Almanac. It's now no longer the cover because the interview with him never happened. But it will be in the next issue in full colour somewhere.
I might still be doing THE cover.

judgement

weighing decisions about two weeks ago. stream of consciousness collaging of images from collection

fuschia leotard

I was in a music video last Friday:

Lame Drivers- "Demondzblood" from Samantha Cornwell on Vimeo.

rockin' and rollin' Ronda

I was trying to find the scanned finished piece on my hard-drive, and I can't. This is a sketch for it. Rockin' Ronda. For an assignment combining type and image.

Trying To Flush The Iguana Down The Toilet

the complete collection:

trying to access vision

small collection of sketches. trying to access vision, and having a hard time.

these were some attempts of pushing it out.

how i felt inside:

trying to catch freedom, or as St.St. puts it, "the freedom that i'm chasing is the void i'm running from." don't think you're doing me a favour giving it to me. it's impossible to hold, anyway.



leave you with Hunter S. Thompson: "Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death..."

album cover

Will update with progress.

Center will be cool vintage, outside graphic bits that 70's red orange. "Manzanita Ridge" woven into the devil's crawling cactus that is morphing out of the poppies' stems.

altar

This is inside of a matchbox. I'm still on this real personal kick--working out my iconography, visually representing my goals.

This is the base for the altar.
and this is the back. It's a quote from the last pages of Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels, which is one of my top three favourite books.

To me it's talking about the triangle of fear, freedom, and adrenaline.

I'm sort of in the process of "thingfinding" the rest: making mini candles, maybe tiny scrolls, baby bird feathers, blossoms...

I discovered this store on Hollywood Blvd. today called Wacko and it's this huge store full of things I love. It's definitely stuff you're going to have trouble finding other places. For example, this is my wishlist from my trip there:

• this book Narcisa by Jonathan Shaw,

• My Freedamn! 4 Hippie Rags Issue (and the other books in that series, too.)

• a tiny Rat Fink patch

• Coyote knuckle bones 10 for $7.50!

• on that note, got to get a jewelry drill still... UNIVERSE: send me income!

• infinite amount of Tiki paraphenalia

• coolest postcards ON EARTH

• these beautiful Mexican paper decorations, layers of fringed cut paper in different shapes with an image in the middle. I mean, I could make that, I guess.

I'm also definitely going to get back into embroidery because I flipped through the Nudie (suits) book at that store and it was super inspirational.

south paradiso

This is a practice painting for what may become the best thing that's ever happened to me art-wise. This is with leather acrylics, which are more liquid than regular acrylics. I paint with watercolours, not acrylics, so any critique, especially regarding technique, is highly appreciated.
The canvas is 4"x6"
The "assignment" was to do an Hawaiian landscape with a waterfall. This is the piece in progress, maybe 70%, maybe 80%.

in The DIG!

Oh, hello, this happened:

Manifestation

This is a pronto plate print, which is about how gum arabic, ink, and water react with each other.  These are large prints, about 14"x 20"

my plate degraded so rapidly, I could only do four. I've posted all four so that you can see the progression/regression. 

This concept is definitely a work in progress since it's a direct and purposeful reflection of a mix of my current goals, wishes and a tiny bit of iconography that is representative of aspects of my spirituality.

manifestation exercise

a to-be pronto plate print.  the pencil under the future ink.

Tthe manifestation of intent for all of my wishes, goals, and spirituality.  I am taking the internal--turning thought into thing--it is The Truth as soon as I deem it so.

Installation Documentation

more to follow soon.

What it's like to be inside my pant leg ;)