idea: circuit boards

i don't know why but i couldn't get the idea of doing something with circuit boards out of my head last night.  i know it's probably pretty lame, but maybe i could make it work.

of course a dark green background with either a copper or silver colored line.  super dense style.  my dad has a pin-striper painting tool that would probably work pretty well for this.  also, it might be interesting to do a woodcut/lino cut print.  that would emphasize the old meets new schtick that i've got going on, but why fight it?

i also like the fact that they're an actual object and not simply a linear design for a flat surface.  what if, instead of simply paintings they were planks of wood that were displayed on the wall--or somehow in a gallery space.

it might be even cooler to go ahead and do some kind of circuit board design on green acrylic--either painted on, or even etched into it

i had toyed around with this idea in the past--specifically because it was something that i could have done with embroidery, but i think the scale of what i'm thinking really stopped me from stitching anything.

they could even be made into tons of other colors.  blues would be pretty cool.

idea: shrines

i've had this idea for a while now.  i actually was thinking about this around the time that i started working on the quilts, so at this point it's more than just a conceptual sketch and something i thought was worth giving a little more investment in.

the idea is to create shrines out of old junked spaceship parts.  the trucker would come across these relic parts along his travels and they would've become a kind of shrine either to the ship, passengers of the ship, or battle/accident that brought the ship down.  the parts would be adorned with candles, produce, flowers, spices, and of course pickles.

i know starting off on a new train of ideas that the pieces aren't going to be final presentation worthy until all the the kinks get worked out further along the way, so i decided to keep it simple.  i'm using found cardboard and newspaper; initial investment: $0.

and i'm kicking it old school by making it out of paper mache.  i think ideally i'd like to make them out of wood, but wood costs money, is heavy, takes up a lot of space, and these i can just recycle if they don't work out.  i can't tell you how many countless paper mache sculptures (a lot of them star wars related) i made growing up.  tons!

i'm venturing off on this new idea and i've given it a lot of thought, but there's still a lot of things i have to figure out: are they presented in a gallery or photographed on site?  if they're photographed on site, what kind of terrain are they in?  is there an overarching theme to the gifts presented to the shrine?  given the space of my studio, are they actual size, or are they scale models?  what kind of a story do i present as background for the shrine?  etc., etc., etc...

idea: tombstone

this headstone turned up outside my work the other day and the gears in my head started working again.  i thought i'd illustrate how my weird stream-of-conciousness art brain works.

i was thinking how interesting it was that we never see the lower portion of the headstone--the part that gets buried underground.

also, i'm completely obsessed with monoliths.  backstory/history/art history:  not only do i love the black monolith from 2001, but also the monoliths that john mccracken was making in the 60's.  i love the simplicity of the beautiful minimal object (added to the fact that mccracken finished his with automotive finishes).

idea: what if there were headstones in space for people that died in battle.

if there were floating headstones in space, maybe they would have some kind of galactic goo/space algae/space mushroom growing on them.

what if this goo was somehow correlated to where the ground-line on an earth headstone was.

of course the headstone would be some bright color, as a marker.  maybe it has small lights on it like boats do.  they might also be much larger, and not necessarily be just planks, but maybe crystalline shapes, and close to life size.

it would be cool to actually suspend them in a space with fishing wire or some kind of invisible thread.

idea: tintype

in an effort to keep my blog from going completely dormant while i figure out what the hell i'm doing in the studio i thought i'd start putting up some ideas.  there's a lot of random things floating around in my head, none of which are concrete enough to warrant full on exploration, but fun to think about none the less.  until i land on something to keep me going for a while i'm just gonna post some ideas.

the vintage shop where i work has some of these tintypes floating around.  they're really cool old photographs printed on tin.  i don't know a lot about them, but their overall look and physicality are pretty cool.  they're really small, well worn, and extremely rigid (duh, they're on tin)

idea: do some kind of hybrid of the old tintype photographs with space imagery.

this is an old photo of me in a space costume that i photoshopped.