Art & Ecology : The forest for the trees

Vertical sounds and horizontal noise

MAYA Pedal

Maya Pedal is a Guatemalan NGO based in San Andrés Itzapa. With the help of Bikes not Bombs (Boston) ,twice a year a shipping container of bikes in varying degrees of disrepair are sent to San Andrés to be repaired sold or re-purposed into pedal powered machinery. During the course of a three month stay, I was reconstructing old and used bikes into new refurbished ones, welding frames for several variations of 'bici maquinas' and teaching local youth how to fix their own bikes. In my free time I studied Spanish in neighbouring Antigua, played street basketball with locals and took a few bike trips around Guatemala.
http://www.mayapedal.org/

Photography: Dystopia/Displacement, Californiahhh...etc

Pedestrian Bridge Proposal: Yale Town

 Pedestrian bridge proposal connecting Yale Town to False Creek in Vancouver, BC:
50%+ green space
Pedestrian path
Bike path
Local gathering points: ie: children's park, public amphitheatre, framers market

crafted to scale, I used moss from a  hobby shop to highlight some of the green space. In the foreground an amphitheatre  in the background a sheltered market space.

Google 3D:Sustainable Housing and Design

Low Income Student Housing: Shipping Container Proposal

The proposal called for 65+ unit concept to be constructed on a large parking lot complex on Granville Island in Vancouver. 50% greenspace, including a commons area.

Dusting off the old files....

It's amusing, when I was asked to actively engage in blogging again for a digital print media class I'm currently taking, I was a little concerned that I didn't have a legitimate body of work to present. Low and behold I've documented almost all of my work over the years. Perhaps it was bit of reluctance on my part to post most of it. I'm still not quite sure what is blog worthy or not, never the less I'll be slowly filtering through it over the course of the semester. Some concepts or interests I've explored and continue to explore:
Sculpture
Design
Architecture
Sustainability
Environment
Culture/Ethnicity
Community
Photography
Print Media
Drawing/Sketching
Tattoos
Mysticism
Alchemy
Ritual
Food

Litho, Woodcut and Chine colle : Evil minds

Faces were drawn on lithograph stone and printed on japanese paper, woodcut background carved on mdf, collaged faces with chine colle on cotton rag archival paper.

 Crying Liberty - digital litho

 Knives - dolphin transfer litho

My hand - litho crayon

Coaster Poster

I was asked to design a poster for a "coaster" art show in December.

Sketches, drawings...

Experimenting with digital layering

I currently playing with some photoshop techniques paired with photographs. Distorting and manipulating photos to appear like a kaleidoscope.

Birds of a feather...

AUDREY CORREGAN
Perceptive, conceptual photographer Audrey Corregan chose to photograph majestic, stuffed birds from behind; perhaps in an attempt to get to the bottom of the issues of taxidermy and the transition from living animal to anonymous object. The nature of these beautiful photographs transforms the taxidermy birds into merely pleasing patterns and shapes, now unrecognisable as beasts and curiously challenging aesthetically.

http://www.audreycorregan.com/

Art deco and ecology

Eugene Alain Seguy

Eugene Alain Seguy was one of the foremost French designers at the beginning of the 20th century. Working in both the Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles, he published many design folios utilizing the pochoir technique, a printing process that employs a series of stencils to lay dense and vivid color.

Eugene Alain Seguy produced eleven albums of illustrations and designs from the turn of the century to the 1930s, and his style reflected the influences of both Art Nouveau and Art Deco.

http://www.puregreenmag.com/pure-green-blog/zoological-beauty

Ken Price

http://www.kenprice.com/

Paper Sculpture: Inspiration

Chun Kwang Young

Textile Project

I really want to work with textiles in my next project. I love ethnic textiles for their boundless eclectic patterns and vibrant colors. Mexican textiles and African prints are the most intriguing to me. I've been brainstorming with using a scanner to capture the texture and color schemes of some piece of fabric I own.

Jesus

India ink on mylar

Screen Print: Rubylith

Future textile prints: sketch & carved rubylith