Welllll, this is about as good as it's gonna get.....

Walking around in my everyday you would think i had just walked out of a coal mine. I am an abstract landscape painter and produce mural size paintings on a daily basis. A main component in my mix of media in my paintings is charcoal. When i come home at night you would think i had changed races until of coarse i go to change my clothes and there are outlines of where my tshirt use to be.

I think to myself, "I wonder what people think when they see me around campus or town??" Do they think to themselves, HA! ew, she's dirty...she's a hot mess...or do they not even see me at all. There is uncertainty on many different levels in all aspects of life.

People react to uncertainty with fear, nervousness or even a feeling of indifference. My goal is to bring out those specific emotions by allowing the viewer to experience a setting, overwhelmed with atmosphere, that will make you question possible states or outcomes. I work in washes of acrylic medium on top of partially gessoed canvas with charcoal. The physicality of my work is intended to not only create literal movement throughout the piece, but also to create an emotional movement within the viewer. By using aggressive brush strokes and the intermingling of charcoal, I create a texture that puts a weight on the viewer yet forces them to continue throughout the entire piece.

My goal of this blog is to let you into my dirty charcoal world of abstraction. I will be posting different works at different stages on a weekly basis, along with where my thought process runs off too throughout.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Central New York, How I Will Miss You When Im Gone

When my alarm went off at 630am this morning I rolled over with an overwhelming feeling of exhaustion, per usual.  I went to go grab my cell phone, again per usual because clearly I had to see if there was anyone who needed to talk to me in the 5.5 hours I was dormit from my phone and sleeping.  Surly enough there where two messages.  One from my mother in response to the messages she found on her phone from me as i pondered life at 130am.  The other from the SUNY Cortland alert system, informing me that classes will be on delay until 10am due to weather.  At this point i just thanked god, rolled back over and went to sleep after setting my alarm again for 8am.  When 8am rolled around I slowed began to rise from the dead.  To my surprise I found a "Shit Ton!" of snow outside.  I sat thinking to myself, ok.. Im from the Rochester/Buffalo area..I knowwww snow, and I cannot think of a time where I was truly snowed in.  This is probably because my driving career has been a whopping 7 years.  But in any event I thought it would be a good morning post to share, with my six followers on my blog, my morning and my almost completely non visible, 1999 chevy cav 4 door white third car in from your right, view from my window.  Oh how I will miss central New York when I leave. I will now make a pot of coffee and watch the news. Ahh relaxation.  Thank You Precipitation!
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