Secret Code No. 3 (I Should Let You Pose For Me), 2001 50.5 cm x 40.5 cm mixed media
This is my only attempt at a mixed media piece. Secret Code No. 3 (I Should Let You Pose For Me) was made with acrylic, ink, charcoal, graphite, and cut paper. I basically threw everything in my art box at it except pastels and twine. This is also the point I switched focus from making collages to figuring out how to paint.
Notes From My Sketchbook IX, 2008 graphite on paper
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a thousand words is worth a picture (?). This is a page from one of my sketchbooks that’s on some E.E. Cumming’s visual poetry shit. Looking at it, I recall what was going on in my life at the time. I was working in an office, doing additional freelance storyboard work, had a dental appointment on the horizon, and a friend of mine had recently moved to Ft. Greene. There are also some things that are written in code that I won’t divulge. I once had a sketchbook stolen from my car and ever since I have written my notes in code.
Secret Code No. 19 (Whatever, Just Fucking Read), 2011
Secret code No 22, (2011)
Christianity is a religion of the book. In the early Christian era, Christ was depicted with a scroll. The Bible, the “Book of Books,” contains histories texts, and prophetic books. Traditionally, the book is found as a religious symbol in the hands of men : Christ, the Apostles, the saints and martyrs, patrons and princes of the Church. It is a vessel of divine grace and the bearer of spiritual authority.
-Stefan Bollmann, Reading Women
Secret Code No. 4, (2005)
Books are my most frequently occurring symbol. They may be used with slight contextual variations but the core is always knowledge/information-whether it be historical, scientific, procedural, instructional, mythological, anecdotal, psychic, philosophical, visual, etc.
