An ongoing project using waste cardboard from boxes and packaging as a painting surface to renew the refuse materials’ perceived value, and to raise awareness to the amount of waste which is created by western lifestyles.  The pieces shown are two collared shirt packing boards and a piece of the packaging for a home storage  unit, all of which would normally be disposed of and promptly forgotten.  Not shown are cereal boxes, a cookie box and the stiffening board at the bottom of a paper pad.

The process of creation also plays a key role in the final rendering of the pieces. As gestural and random layers of paint are built up on top of each other, a composition emerges.  Only after the first few painting sessions do I know the outcome of the painting.    The decorative pseudo-ornamentals are references to Mucha’s illustration style.

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Mixed media on card stock paper and cardboard.

Varying Sizes – mostly small

2007- Present

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I just found a couple digital images of paintings I did back in my university days.

A discussion of technologically mediated communication, the paintings depict digital communication systems overlayed on pixelated imagery of found webcam screenshots.  The overlay style, painted in a definitely analog method, reference the digital layer opacity workflow found in applications such as Photoshop.

It cannot be denied that communication methods have changed as a result of technology.  Just over a century ago, communication across oceans took months, and now, real time HD video can stream. Speaking over the phone is different from speaking through connected computers. Video chat and web cam communication has changed our conceptual size of the real world, bringing people closer together, yet there is an increased psychological distance between humans emerging related to digital mediation.  Do the benefits outweigh the detriments?  Only time will tell.

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Hfour produced the video for the annual Tokyo Women’s Cultural University fashion show which was held on June 6th 2009 on the Kokubunji campus. The full edit is just over an hour long and is unavailable for public release. This version is approximately twenty minutes shorter but still contains the show in its entirety.