My Artificial Nature/Existential Systems

We Developed a Theology  of Natural Causes     2002 pencils, pens acrylics, oils, on denril 84" x 140"


A Translation of Light  2003 - oil, acrylic, pencil colored pencil on denril  84" x 140"


Time's Flower 2002   pencils, pens acrylics, oils, on denril   84" x 124"


Visual Equation with Inverted Tree      2002   pencils, pens acrylics, on denril 84" x 144"


Visual Equation with Inverted Tree      2002   pencils, pens acrylics, on denril 84" x 144"


Bad History   2002-3  acrylic and pencils on denril,    84"x 117"


Where everything shatters and everything is reclaimed- 2003 - oil, acrylic, pencil colored pencil  on denril  84" x 80"


The Future Passed Us By  2001-2  acrylic, house paint and pencils on denril,   84"x 132"


Where everything shatters and everything is reclaimed- 2003 - oil, acrylic, pencil colored pencil  on denril  84" x 80"


Bad Gardeners: detail

Don't worry, everything is always changing,  acrylic and pencils on denril.jpg    2001  60" x 118"


Blockheads destroy the Screaming Earth,  acrylic and pencils on denril    2001 48" x 135"


Rainboweaters in the snakepit   acrylic, latex and pencils on denril   2002   84" x 60"


Melting Rainbowearthmen,   acrylic and pencils on denril  2002   48" x 144"


Hate me Hate you   acrylic and pencils on denril   2002  48" x 125"


Bad Builders Children   acrylic and pencils on denril   2002    48" x 150"


2001-3   click to enlarge
The Follies followed the Bad Gardeners. I started the series immediately after September 11th, 2001 as a way of responding to the shock of the attack on New York, Pennsylvania and DC- all
in places I lived or had lived close to, and the fear and war that followed. The idea of the frieze, the wide strip came from comic strips as well as ancient imagery. The connection to the ancient
or the mythic is important, in that it alludes to the fallible nature of mankind that never changes and never really learns. The myths tell us that each of us must learn the same lessons all through history and 
unless we learn from history and wisdom we will be doomed to repeat the same errors as the people who have gone before.   
The imagery draws from works by Salvador Dali, Goya, El Greco and others, including the Dr. Suess story about the empty pants.