New Works - Late Summer

Finishing up at STO ROX

Spring Cleaning

Uninterrupted emptiness
smooth and clean as Ocean's edge
nothing remains
all objects are lifted and turned
spun into dance
vast power reorients and sweeps
combs and smoothes
the refreshed and sparkling surface
the tidy tide receeds
robes gathered in dignity
jingling bracelets making music
the ocean is here not in its shells
but in its essence and principles
the wilderness is here in its silence
its charming openness
sublte and inconspicuous
the blossoms on the branches
are continuous
with the body of bark

Sto-Rox Progress : Nightclub and Rocketship

We are two weeks into the residency now. The students, while at times struggling with unfamiliar processes and the ambiguous circumstances of creativity, have done some amazing things. I am very excited by this project because it is being built on such an explorative and experimental foundation. It possesses the possibility of becoming "WOW-ART"

Sto-Rox: first day

We had gethered broken electronics and after a short discussion of the scanning process and previous work I had done we got to work. Here are pictures of the breakdown process.

Blythe's Bust

This is a tinted plaster casting that i made from a rubber mold. I did the art work in clay during the year 2006 gradually all summer long. I'm quite happy with its life-like presence.

Sto-Rox Residency

Here we are at the start of a new residency at Sto-Rox High School in Mckees Rocks.
We have begun by gathering broken appliances and electronics and taking them all apart down to the smallest parts. Now we are reorienting those parts to become sculptures and also to use in scanning projects to make more magnified digital prints.

Here is a scientist at work in his laboratory:

Tallie Marino 1993-2008

These are the last pictures taken of Tallie as she took a walk in my parents yard on November 1. She died a week or so later.

Prayers and blessings for her walking spirit.

Residency for Children's Hospital

During the last month of 2008 I was working with Highschool students at The Neighborhood Academy on a set of digital images for the newly errected Children's Hospital. It is a massive and modern new hospital looking to incorporate art that makes a strong impression. So far I have printed and delivered 5 of the 10 images we made (size: 36X50).