feeling...

...great.


better than I have for a while...started eating better (more at home, less out), drinking less (less at home, almost none out) and excercising a lot more (3 bike rides this past week)...


and there's an absolute ton of events coming in the fall...art shows, benefits and fundraisers, you name it and it's happening pretty soon in Tiny Town...


I rejoined the board of directors at IAO this past month after a longish absence...after serving for quite a while I needed to rejuvenate a bit... but now the time is here to step back up to the plate and help out one of the best little art organizations this city has to offer... go to the web site and check it out, print out a membership form and do your part in helping to keep art alive and well in OkC...

studio parties...

are always a blast...here's a pic from last December's party just getting started...





next party & exhibit will be September 22nd, 2007 starting @ 6:00PM...

we'll be showing Paul Mays in the Trailer Trash Gallery...with a few other sculptors thrown around the yard and shop...and works in progress for my show at Raffine' opening September 28th...


of course we'll food & drink...so...


mark your calendars...this will be a good one...

twelvebytwelve...

is here again...


September 29th, 2007 @ Fred Jones Industries Building, 900 W. Main...check it out @ www.ovac-ok.org/ovacnews.html


started my piece for this year's show...


the piece last year was "who holds the key to happiness" ... the piece was made after a break-up in a relationship and it was a question on my mind at the time...oddly enough it was the woman I had just ended a relationship with that bought the damn thing...I hope she still has it...


I'm somewhat of a reflective at times...I tend to look at things at a little bit of a distance...this is probably due to the fact that I also tend to keep a little distance from most others around me on a personal level...people who "know" me from hanging out socially only really know "of me"...that's not to say that they don't have opinions about me (I hear they do)...it's just that on a true personal level I keep mostly to myself...I guess we all do in some way...


I suppose in making art you tend to let people glimpse inside you all of the time...like opening the blinds a bit...but going back to the conversation of "what is art?", art, by it's nature, is subjective anyway, so what people may be attributing to you probably resides within themselves...that goes along with having an opinion about someone as well...


so while I'm still in this reflective loop of inner emotions, self and shit like that, I started working on this...





it started out as something about "fractured heart"...but has since evolved into an openness that lets others see in...


I like that better, since my heart isn't necessarily fractured, but I do let people see in occasionally...

mom's rose...

went by the old homestead this past weekend...





a single rose...


was all that was left...

new link...

Andy Boatman's Blue Sage Studio can be found here and is added to the "stuff I like" at right...he blogs here...


Andy blows...





glass.


His new studio is @ 1218 N Western Avenue right here in Art's Heart, Oklahoma City...


Rick & Tracy Bewley will be moving their studio in sometime soon...and Stephen Kovash will be running a new gallery in the front...


look for the "Lighting Show" on August 25th...same locale...

how many is a kazillion?

'cause that's about how many things are running around in my head right now and I can't clearly understand any of them...

I am supposed to be working on the concept(s) for a sculpture proposal that I am supposed to submit by 4pm on Wednesday...

having been one of four artists to receive an invitation I think I'm obliged to follow through...but fuck! I keep thinking of part of that "why I am an artist" bullshit about being "concept as opposed to inspiration driven", which I suppose is a cop-out of sorts since it pretty much prevents Divine Intervention on an artistic level...

where the hell's that "eureka moment" when you need it?

oh well, I'm sure I'll come up with something...maybe my friend Sandy's tree out in the hills above San Diego will "inspire"...

I hope...

lips gong stand #2...

finished product...

detail of bolted connection...

out in front of the shop...

started it Thursday at 7pm and finished the next morning at 2am...
picked up at 9am and on stage that night...


fun stuff...