The Beginning of the End

Morlopticon

Digital composite for a serigraph, 11 x 14", 

Edition TBD, 2011.

 

It is almost the end of my thesis year and my time at OCAD. I am a little sad but mostly glad, this year has been a little too intense and I am really excited to get into my new studio space and get a drafting table and silk-screening equipment set up. Anyways here are two new things that I have been working on, the first being a poster for an animation retrospective that my friend Naomi Hocura is putting on. I am really excited to be doing posters again, I didn't really have time this year because of how busy I was with thesis work. The artist whose work this screening will be focusing on is Keiichi Tanaami, an amazing painter/printmaker/animator, and the event is being organized through ANGURA! Naomi's awesome avant-garde Japanese art curatorial collective. Oh and the most important part, it is also a fundraiser for Japan! Anyways check out their website if you are interested: http://angura.org/. The second image is a digtial composite for one of two prints that I hope to finish before the OCAD Grad Show in May. I am trying a couple of new things (simpler composition and borders + more succinct references + rhyming poetry) in an attempt to refine exactly what I like about my work and also to speed up the process a bit so I can come away with more finished pieces. This piece has mostly Time Machine film and movie references but there are also some small allusions to Shakespeare, Power Rangers, Dark City, Doctor Who, and Work of Art.