inspiration is a dirty fucking word

Kerry James Marshall, from Letters to a Young Artist

light guard in the Woodlands, TX

inside Dick's, the Woodlands, TX

mall, the Woodlands, TX

3 Notes on Being Back in Hunstville

I just got back to Huntsville, TX, from a residency in Changsha, China. Immediately I have 3 notes on life and art.

1) Inspiration is a dirty dirty fucking word. I need it. Being inspired in Hunstville is harder than Changsha. Changsha is a city and a huge change for me (I had never been to Asia). This is something I will revisit a lot more.

 secret places

liminal objects

2) Money doesn't solve aesthetic problems.

3) Things, my life: an archive of loss & longing

Conceptual Expressionists, part 3

Michael E. Smith - Untitled (hoodie and smoke machine) 2017

Phyllida Barlow - untitled-hangingmonument2015 (timber, polyurethane foam, plystyrene, cement, bonding, steel, plywood, fabric, scrim, paint, PVA, filler, sand) 2015

Cody Tumblin - tread softly (dyed flannel, thread, button-hole, earring) 2016

Betye Saar - Collecting Twilight Corners (mixed media collage on paper) 1982

Claire Fontaine - Untitled (Missing) (shotgun barrel) 2010

David Hammons - Flight Fantasy (records, hair, plaster) 1983

Brad Downey - The City is Dead (Grottaglie, Italy, 2011) (sheets) 2011 - ongoing

Noah Purifoy - Watts Uprising Remains (found-object assemblage) c. 1965-66

James Lee Byars - The Rose Table of Perfect (3,333 red roses, styrofoam) 1989

Helen O'Leary - A small place to do nothing (egg oil on wood) 2013

Everyday: 4/9/16

 Refrain (commercial produced painting on panel) 2016

 Refrain (commercial produced painting on panel) 2016

Everyday: 3/18/16

Refrain (commercially produced painting on panel)
[for the exhibition, White Feelings]

Everyday: 3/16/16

Black Dust (found object, Hegewisch, Chicago, IL)

Everyday: 3/15/16

(college, fiberglass, debris)

Hegewisch Petcoke Research

“What we really need from the city to truly protect us is a complete ban on pet coke,” said Olga Bautista.

Chicago South East Side Coalition To Ban Petcoke

Southeast Environmental Taskforce

Hegewisch Windowsills (sketches) (charcoal on cotton) 8" x 8" each

Everyday: 3/2/16

Little Bug Out Bag (cement, paracord, and Amoxicillin pills)

Everyday: 2/20/16

Exquisite Corpse (collage, crayon, pencil, marker, and pen on paper) 2016, 8.5" x 11"

Everyday: 2/18/16

Man of Steel (acrylic paint, spray paint, collage, photocopy transfer, charcoal, watercolor, collage, ink, and debris) 2016, 18" x 24"

Everyday: 2/11/16

(collage on book cover)

Everyday: 2/9/16

(styrofoam found on the beach, Sidi Kaouki, Morocco)

Everyday: 2/4/16

(watercolor on paper)

Everyday: 1/24/16

(cardboard box, kidney beans, and horseshoe crab tail)

Everyday: 1/20/16

Space Wizard (laminated inkjet print from the Danville Public Library, pencil, paper, and staples) 2016

proposal for exchange sculpture

Everyday: 1/19/16

(aquarium ornament)

Everyday: 1/14/16

(tape backing)

Everyday: 1/10/16

(cardboard, acrylic paint, soot, candle wax)