Postcards From a Traveling Artist

Gallery show opening Tonight!

2008-10-02T23:56:00.005-04:00

Ink, Oil, Film, Duct Tape, and Some Paper, The three person show opens today at Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA. and I am in it. (Click on the image above to see the October First Friday announcement card)
The show will feature video and oil paintings by Nathan Lewis, Exquisite corpse drawings by Jim Collins, and Paper embossing by myself. Quite a mix, eh?

Traveling Sketchbook: Airport waiting

2008-09-25T10:17:00.002-04:00

Another layover at Washington D.C. Dulles International Airport.

Traveling Sketchbook: Seattle Airport in the evening

2008-09-17T09:49:00.002-04:00

A few hours of layover at the Seattle Airport. I sat and watched the planes come and go as the night slowly fell. The air craft right front of me started to unload the baggages to the side, and its passengers to the other. Steadily, and quite rutinely.

Traveling sketchbook: Ken's Bakery

2008-09-17T09:43:00.002-04:00

Portland Day 3. Super dilicious quiches they've got. Big open windows and great relaxed atmosphere.

Traveling sketchbook: a blue lighter

2008-09-17T09:42:00.001-04:00

Traveling sketchbook: Will's room

2008-09-17T09:40:00.002-04:00

Traveling sketchbook: Trip to Oregon Day 2

2008-09-17T09:34:00.004-04:00

a view of and from the balcony, Portland, OR

marriage

2008-09-15T22:35:00.001-04:00

A wedding gift for a good friend of mine. Pen & ink composition on two sheets of mylar, sandwiched together in between two sheets of plexiglass. (24"x36")

habitual activity no.1

2008-09-15T21:32:00.003-04:00

A diagram of a highly habitual human activity.

wire drawing on a wall

2008-08-23T17:02:00.007-04:00

A new style of "drawing" I've been experimenting on the walls of my studio.

Video

2008-07-26T16:50:00.004-04:00

This summer I am taking a course for video art that was designed for painting students. We learn the brief history of video art half the time, and for the rest of the time we learn how to make videos ourselves by actually making them. This one here is a piece I worked on most recently, entitled "Lifelong Journey, big headed days."(02'30")

Thought on Toyako G8 Summit 2008

2008-07-26T16:19:00.004-04:00

This year's G8 Summit has been taken place on the island in Northern Japan where I'm from. Though I'm in Savannah, being so far away from Hokkaido physically, I'd never felt so attached or paid so close attention to this annual event before this time around.

8 out of 10

2008-07-18T16:22:00.005-04:00

This project was my attempt to locate the subconscious. (if there's such a thing as my subconscious, after all.)
From top left to bottom right, 1-8. Ink on mylar.

I want to capture the werewolf and work out the way to work with him. He seems to be somewhere and always in between each of these drawings.
I think I know where he is, but I cannot grasp him.

finding subconscious

2008-07-18T14:51:00.008-04:00

A drawing of mushrooms done from life layerd on top of a drawing done of it.

lettuce leaves

2008-07-18T14:45:00.002-04:00

Spring, 2008

Another experimental piece I made while thinking of the layers of mediation processes within the system of our perception.
...more or less, big headed.

three mushrooms

2008-07-18T14:44:00.004-04:00

Spring, 2008

Three Shiitake mushrooms being observed and studied from many different angles repeatedly. This is rather a visual note/ sketch of my then current thoughts.

an experiment of landscape cut-out

2008-07-18T14:41:00.005-04:00

April, 2008
I wanted to explore and experiment more on the ideas of 'layers' on different levels. This is a piece, with which I attempted to apply additional layers to a composition by physically layering pieces of vellum, that had some sections and shapes been cut out, on top of one another.

work space

2008-07-18T13:27:00.006-04:00

April, 2008

One of the first paintings I made after returning back from Europe. It's an on-sight drawing/painting of my studio space. (Ink on museum board.)

Arles

2008-03-21T20:11:00.007-04:00

One of the eleven drawings done under the same theme of 'layers.' This depicts my experience of visiting the town of Arles.

Pen & Ink, 40 x 120cm

Lacoste on Paris

2008-03-21T20:01:00.002-04:00

The landscape of Lacoste is painted on top of the drawing of Paris' cityspace. The '"layered' images here represent the layers of my experiences in France.

Morning and Afternoon

2008-03-21T19:48:00.002-04:00

The two views of the valley back to back.

"Layers of Paris" Final ver.

2008-03-21T18:30:00.003-04:00

This is the final look of "Layers of Paris." I added the bottom part later, and the wee top one on the day before the opening of the show. (!)

Layers of Paris- painting

2008-02-15T15:36:00.004-05:00

Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches

This is where it all kind of 'started.'

more chimneys

2008-02-15T07:49:00.005-05:00

Ever since I arrived here I've been intrigued by the chimneys on the roofs of the houses in the village. The all unique and different shapes and colors and how they change their looks in lights that change most frequently throughout the day.
The chimneys fascinate me beyond description.

Chimneys of France

2008-02-15T07:43:00.005-05:00