a secret love. a love for shadows.
animated tears
A first try at animating some hand drawn artwork using processing.
Here is the original that inspired it.
courage
{courage}
my letter to you is a boat
read by rain and waves
kraken tower
when the storm has passed
I’ll be waiting for you at kraken tower
Originally posted on my instagram and I’m really proud of this caption, I think it suggests a little story with very few words. It has a sense of melancholy. One of the best I’ve written.
the moon and you
{the moon and you}
the moon
loves you
for weird you are.
small cube
{small things}
a little cube I made and painted. little secrets inside.
daruma
{persist}
daruma in my hand.
inscrutable face
{inscrutable face}
this kind of beauty, impermanent and incomplete.
green with sadness
{green with sadness}
I was sad and worried because our cat was sick. This is what came out.
This was the second piece I made on a block of wood using the CNC to create the pockets and frame outline (the process is documented with more detail with the red cat series). It is also a character I drew first in 2012. Somehow I use it to process sadness.
fire snake
This is the first piece I made on a block of wood using the CNC to create the pockets and frame outline (the process is documented with more detail with the red cat series).
Incidentally the size was an accident. I drew a bigger version but when I opened the SVG file in jscut I forgot to specify the proper pixels per inch ratio. I liked the final result so I went with it. Happy accident.
scrapbook cover
the cover for my new sketchbook/scrapbook. Lots of things going on.
time mountain
seeing itself in the mirror the mountain wondered: “where did time go?”
olvidar
{olvido}
to forget a dream in which we find a way to express this feeling.
alien god
{alien god}
a little paper cutting action.
ace of swords
{ace of swords}
thinking, delicate and dangerous act.
winged alien god
the winged alien God returns.
show walkthrough
sad music
{sad music}
notes like tears on the dance floor.
ace of coins
{ ace of coins}
or the perils of turning ideas into food and shelter.
alien flower
or the music from your dreams.
tree hands
{tree-hands}
this frozen music
grown on bloody soils.
textured forrest
{textured forrest}
sometimes I wish I could touch the tallest trees.
garden gnome
This was my submission for the Doodlers Anonymous showcase sponsored by Tom Bihn. Go over there and vote for it, the garden gnome will be most grateful.
The story behind it:
“I have been reading a Hundertwasser text called the garden gnome where he says the garden gnome is a reminder of how we used to talk to the grass and the birds and we no longer know how. The travel theme made me think about the film Amelie and how she convinces her father to travel the world by stealing his garden gnome and having a friend send postcards with the gnome around the world. I dream of traveling around speaking to the birds and the grass and the people and I’d love to send my friends postcards with a funny -yet deep- character that goes around clothed with whatever he finds in his journey.“
for those who seek
{seekers}
where will I find myself?
maybe the stars.
maybe in your eyes.
a quote from my father
He is a loner. I don’t think I would put it that way. My father lives in a remote Colombian town, a place called Aguacate Bay. He is a very special weirdo and someone made a documentary about him.
It has not been released yet but I’ll keep you updated.
The garden gnome
The text by Hundertwasser that inspired the gnome drawings:
The absence of kitsch make our lives unbearable.
We can’t manage without romanticism.
The garden gnome symbolizes our right to dreams and our yearning for a fairer, better world.
The garden gnome is a bulwark against the soulless, nihilistic dictates of our times. Just as we hunt Dracula with garlic and crucifixes, so we use the garden gnome to drive out sterile, tyrannical dogma.
Aggressive rationalists and passive dreamers of a better, more beautiful existence part company at the garden gnome.
Long before the christian world picture, long before the gods of the ancient Romans and Egyptians, long before history was ever recorded, we were able to talk to the birds, the animals, the plants and the trees, indeed even to water, rocks and clouds, and communication brought harmony.
Thus it is written in fairy tales.
The garden gnome, together with the elves, pixies, gnomes, giants and the whole host of magical beings, is a last survivor from that distant past.
Man lives by virtue of his identity, by virtue of his memory of the roots of his being. We may now be very “intelligent”, but we have forgotten the language of nature.
Hence the small gnome in the garden.
You talk to the grass and the birds for me.
I no longer know how.
And ask nature for forgiveness for the evil we do her, and help me against the cold, all powerful enemy.
I no longer know how.
Hundertwasser
April 1990
(I found this piece of text in Harry Rand’s book about Hundertwasser published by Taschen).
garden gnomes inspired by Hundertwasser
judgmental pages
when the sketchbook looks at you,
Like that stranger in the mirror.
self promotion dragon
Do you like Facebook?
-well, don’t answer that question.
Do you like awesome art?
-why, of course.
Then Go like my new Facebook page and share it with your friends.
thank you thank you thank you!
migration
is the place where we are now
the place where we will stop moving?
a peek into my log
I just started keeping a logbook after reading steal like an artist. Thank you Austin Kleon!
social cat
After listing all the social media sites I use my inner cat was overwhelmed. I also needed an illustration for my “contact” page.
In celebration of fire
OMG this dragon has a neck tattoo!
666
this was my 666th Instagram post.
Thank you for following, liking and commenting!
water and the dog
a remake of one I posted 9 weeks ago called “fire and the dog”.
alien drama
who can tell me what that young yellow thingamajing is doing over there?
for the weirdos
this one is for you.
ink drops
in every drop of ink
a world of possibilities
cat rain tears snake clouds
cat
rain
tears
tower
snake
clouds
