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Some sketchbook recently, all doodles while listening in some meeting or other. Drawing helps me listen, surprise, and I’ve always known this is using both the visual and verbal parts of my brain at once, but I’ve recently realized that the tactile element of pen on page is just as important. I was watching a presentation a week or so ago and I didn’t have drawing tools and I was having trouble not checking my phone or computer, so I started focusing on the textured elements of my phone case and other stuff around me and it totally worked. Drawing is image creation but it’s also definitely just stimming too! I wonder how many of us got good at drawing because we are drawn to the stim.

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“Earthling” Acrylic on panel, 3x4 feet The character is … people. It is a monster, a gross scary twisting pile of pink stuff, and it is a beautiful strange swirling piece of the landscape too. It’s a piece of the nature it’s tumbled in, and it’s apart from it. It’s spooky and yucky and sweet and just enjoying laying in the grass. It’s a biological body both luxuriating and lost in a cataract of earthly beauty 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

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Spook

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"Willing Captive"

Spirit in a tree, daemon comfortably tangled in nature, a life form enraptured by the life around it, a willing captive, just a lil dude enjoying the view, turning to see what you’re up to. This board is one of many leftover “planets” from the mural I did behind the bar at The House (mw Santa Fe) 🪐 Painting on a funny shape makes photographing a painting much harder, especially having used dark and shiny paints on a rough textured board. Uh, acrylic on cnc cut plywood. Maybe 16”x20”?

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Goblin Vanity / Elf Vanity

An inaccurate sketch of a sculpture im thinking about

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The Tower - after the tower card in tarot

Doodle turned meditation on massive change --- as with the tower card, its not always a bad thing.

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"Empty Lot" - diorama for MW Houston

Made mostly of hot glue, gold leaf, and pigment, plus rock friend, leftover curtain rods, and some vinyl

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“Emergency Exit”

Mural in Meow Wolf Houston

Painted in 4 days!

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The golden rat! Benji and I found this - as pictured on concrete - on the sidewalk outside of the construction site. Gold already! I gold leafed its bones on my last day in Houston. There’s a lot to say about this but in short: be gross, say yes when universe offers you unexpected treasure.

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Slime mold - some painted some colored hot glue

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Penni the dogapillar / pigapillar / fox dragon (actual species unknown)

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Some views of the mushrooms installed. There are 100 of them!

Installed by Spencer, sculpt and paint variation on initial design by Sofia and under Spencer’s direction

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Mushrooms for the Ruins / the Bailiwick

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Some tiny critters in the Ruins / The Bailiwick in Radio Tave: Meow Wolf Houston

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Fecundity? Stuff growing from stuff

🪸🌾🌷🪷🪰🪲🍀🪼🕸️👹🍄‍🟫🌼🌱🐚🍄

Beauty is complicated, complexity is beautiful.

And the symmetry tool is fun 🌀🌀🌀

iPad drawing of course.

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More portals - portal pair. Bright light and dark light, two varieties of the same thing, more like photo negatives of each other than conceptual or moral contrast

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Feels wonderfully absurd to add My Website to my website

Materials: hot glue, curtain rods, raku (sculpting epoxy), paint, stickers, shoelace, vinyl, beads, agates, cat toy, found spray foam nubbin, cable, wire, thread, a seashell, pushpins

Made for Cuber Bunk show at Wholesale Saloon opening Friday Sept 6th vvv