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Sometimes It’s Not Enough To Talk About It
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Mardi Gras
It was right after Tami and I had started dating: we met Lacus and E. at their place … newly their place after he had returned from San Paulo, Brazil a few months before. And, of course, they got back together, after one crazy night where Lacus, E. and I went around town with a [...]
America
I took the original video of Mayday on New Year’s eve, 2000/2001. I used a Canon GL1, and captured a still from the miniDV. Watch the video, which includes the original music track “Earlier …“ At the moment this still was grabbed, Mayday was yelling at our friend, Tim Tompt, about how “nobody bit his [...]
The Last Self-Portrait of 2000
I was living by myself in this little — awesome — "split studio" apartment on Queen Anne. I set my VHS-C camera (codename: the bug) on my counter, and shot some video, from which I took this still shot. I scanned the the Webster’s Dictionary entry for the word "Failure" and superimposed that scan on [...]
Overcome
Overcome – Systim
Skyway 2
24 in x 32 in Oil on Canvas This was painted while I was living in a 4th Floor apartment on Lower Queen Anne Hill, in Seattle. This is the view out that window, looking over the powerlines below, out toward the Puget Sound.
Body
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Matches
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In A Room At Night
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New Mexico
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Tetsuo’s Lament
Tetsuos Lament – Systim
XTC
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Awake and Dreaming At The Same Time
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Piano
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Organic
Organic began in 1998, while I was living in my apartment on Broadway, here in Seattle. The underlying image is one scan of my face, which I moved around while the scanner was capturing the image. What resulted was a greatly distorted self-portrait. It reminded me of the “feeling of being organic.” The kind of [...]
Shocking Imagery
Shocking Imagery (w/ Johnny Mayday) – Systim
Deus Nehil Est
24 in x 36 in Oil on Canvas I guess this one seems pretty religious, but it’s not really, and if you know me, you know how *not* religious I am (in fact, perhaps exactly the opposite of religious.) Anyway, the nine in the circle is a not-too-oblique nod to the ninth circle of Hell [...]
Oklahoma
48 in x 24 in Oil on Masonite This was painted for Johnny Mayday after he and I drove out to Seattle for the first time when he first moved to Seattle from Tampa. On the drive, we passed through Oklahoma, and all of the brownness of Oklahoma. There were, though, pretty little flowers growing [...]
Skyway
36 in x 48 in Oil on Canvas I was living with my step-sister in my Grandparents’ condominium in Bradenton, Florida , Melissa, in 1996. My Grandparents had moved to an “elder care facility” and Missy and I moved into their place in the “adult living community.” We were the youngest people living there by [...]
Weight 1 & 2
24 in x 48 in Oil on Masonite Both of these were painted in 1996, when I was living in Tallahassee, Florida, in the smallest apartment you could imagine. Really, I could basically open my arms and almost touch opposite walls at the same time. It was an apartment in the back of a house, [...]