Inner Space

The traditional goal of realism in the West is usually believed to be the direct representation of a subject as it appears to the observer. It is a discipline based on information from the eye. However, we now know this knowledge is not whole. Further study of our natural environment has brought us to be conscious of the world on a microphysical level, allowing our understanding of reality to become multiplicitous. Upon viewing the model, we gain one level of understanding, but intellectually, we know everything to be built from smaller unseen parts. We are aware of molecular exchanges happening between a human being and their environment through simple actions such as breathing the air or making contact with an object.

I'm hoping to give visual life to this space around and inside the human. It is weighted with the breath of those passed, and all that currently lives, and circling through us all the time.

These sketches...don't quite do that yet. I need to get a lil less 1922 wit it.

Rock-n-Romp Squid

photoshop/illustrator collab. for the rock and romp t-shirt design. i dig.

In-Design layouts

Mine:

For CK:

three dimensional ai

An in-class diddy done with the grid tool:

An interior with a window creeper:

Killer Carrots and The Like

Here are some more illustrator creations and photoshop/illustrator combinations.

Glass Squid Faccceee

Dumbo Octopussss

Dragonfish

Me at the nature center. Found a carrot.

Asparagus Tentacles

Ima getchu

Well...there's an eggplant.

Illustrator Biz-nass

So here are some things. I embellished the rings a bit. I like the tomatoes.

The bottom one is a banner design for work study. I just felt like it needed an explanation.

All I've eaten today is cake and beer.

"No, no. Think of the doughnut as a metaphor for Capitalism."

Hubert, neal, and i flung open the lid of the dumpster underneath the white circle of the steet light to reveal the holy grail of krispy kreme doughnuts. Don't worry. This isn't our first doughnut heist. We threw the boxes of fattening delights through the crisp October night air going from hand to hand into the car until it we had to look out our rear view mirrors were rendered useless.

"I know what im gettin' all my friends for Christmas..." chuckled Neal.

"Would you like a doughnut, Hubert?" I asked my finger in a motherese voice.

He didnt respond.

He never does...

I loaded myself with 2 doughnuts and let the world spin.

I have a low doughnut tolerance.

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-Xanga post of mine, dated October 2006

So I rushed home to see the fam for a couple nights over the fall break and managed to slip into this stop-motion project with my bro. The local gas station gave us the doughnut for free.

I sometimes miss living in a small town.

I used the above old blog post as a rough idea for the stop-motion, except the consumption of said doughnut takes me through an experience.