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the project editing is intended to yield select prints, and a gallery installation or other live recording of the project as a part of making artwork available for free digital display.

HALOS

a starting investigation on religious iconography devised in 4 sections:

SKULLS | HALOS | WITNESSES | devotees

acrylic paint on canvas, packaging paper, and deconstructed cardboard.

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ISAIAH devotee

17x40

acrylic paint on deconstructed cardboard box

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foliage and bones

18x24 inches

acrylic paint on canvas (prints of this piece are available in sizes ranging from 9x12in to 27x36in, starting at $20. message me to order your copy)

i remember celebrating Halloween faithfully by dressing up and going trick-or-treating. after coming to Christ in my early twenties i fell out of recognizing any type of holiday associated with the gregorian calendar and cultural traditions of the United States.

as i mature, i aim to regard each day as a sacred gift.

My grandfather is Mexican and we never celebrated Dia de los Muertos or even talked about it. From what i understand it involves alters, rituals remembering the dead, and a recognition of appointed times in November as a result of a mixing of Spanish, Catholic, and Aztec historical traditions.

I set out to paint a portrait of a basic seated figure and didn’t think I would be making a statement beyond what it would appear to be in posture, audacity to center a nude, nameless figure, and the focus on my own style of depicting figure as an object of pride or pleasure to the eye.

without clothes or environmental context, I did make a point to show a mix of religious imagery (halo, laurel wreath, dry bones, and eyes for example as indicating a contemporary style portrait despite being devoid of flesh and skin)

the same weight of line is used to show the factual and historically accurate placement of parts of bone & to indicate leaves.

stone carvings of ancient times that presented imagery of the human body inspired a use of common form and language found in many images centuries before the rise of the word wide web. ie, an open, seated posture.

stone carving preserved a record of how common it was to inhabit the political, the divine, and the common being in design developed as a way to employ authority in secular & sacred revelry.

i’m very interested in the discussion about how imagery affirms or offends any conviction tied to the human heart for or against participating in particular events or popular practices adjacent to our individual experiences, finding a meaningful ethic. what are celebrations or holidays that move you to celebration? what are those that offend?

operating in choice gives deep seated beliefs an outlet to drive our yes and no when it comes to what we do in regards to faith in god as considering our condition and our eternal life after death.

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halos

11x14 acrylic on canvas

golden, fisheye, throat chakra

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digital photography of acrylic paint on a cardboard box.

thus named “cardboard quadtych 2” a second set of paintings dedicated specifically for digital production (ie, a photograph, phone editing, and other forms of preparation for digital display and making prints for sale)

the gloss appearance is from using flash on still wet paint. i prefer a matte finish usually, but i finished at dusk and thought available light led to a darker, grainier finish to the photo while flash made a significant contrast between dark and light while maintaining a less “digitally processed” looking image.

Here’s a look at a 3 second exposure without flash.

texture, glare, and color of the exposure led to me choosing to use flash and composing with the flat surfaces, white spots and shadows that are not present or visible in the paintings themselves without a flash or other light source.

round about the graphic design is a line, a circle, a diagonal, and a square.

this took less than an hour to accomplish, but with ideas that were already in the works for a while now and I think it’s worth a shot to make the most of recyclable materials. I’ve been working on simplifying the concept of painting as intentionally telling the truth about the medium in its most basic components, brush stroke and other forms of how the liquid looks applied with one brush.

the repetition of many strokes reveal lessons learned about trusting the first strokes to be successful in honesty of hand rather than mechanical perfection.

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creature of habit in derivative form

are these worthy of a mention or comment ?

i noticed the differences available light affects the color and contrast of the painted images (like dark blue or amber tint, glares, reduced contrast) in photographing a product, it’s not like graphic design. I like there to be some aesthetic of decided composition, an easy hand at using available light, and of course repeat the process with varying degrees of precision.

drawing this series out did make me think “flaw,” “error,” “mistake,” “could be better,” “gimmicky.”

i did give second thought to what was an intolerable form of “off the mark” or what would be included as record of variation and honest capture of the main effort:

lying between savasana and corpse, cropped center, canvass laid over the torso perpendicular to the body, no flash, no retouching, no particular pain or discomfort to move in and out of the frame within the 10 second timer.

mostly i shot quickly and efficiently as assuming forgiveness of shortcomings being in front and behind the lenses.

should or would i reshoot these with the same lighting? With a model and actual merch ? With a different grounding? Should i find a better way to digitally copy the original images, or would there be value in history of greeting the original art and the artist as a package deal, accepting the art as a gift for the eyes, despite the lack of any robust contribution to society and culture?

what should i estimate is the value of the original set? $60 per canvas is my early estimate attached to an hourly-wage type of contract setting a couple hours of skilled labor and costs for materials as affordable for a buyer but not necessarily industrious in calculating the cost of a single mind, and the efforts to keep the collection whole.

$720 would be the price of the whole collection, I’d part with the paintings but wouldn’t be able to show them later in life if i became a full time artist and managed a successful name.

and it would be a nice surprise to find a buyer interested in the collection as well as the prospect of being able to fill orders of about that size at about that price monthly.

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creatures

14x18 acrylic on canvass

$30 canvas prints available to ship in the US

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I used ai generated fills for these screenshots rom an iPhone video editor. I think I have a better idea of what the actual image is than the plain images and thought they evoked something nubian and vast.

Not sure if these ai generated content like this is honest or very respectable to promote as organic content but I have seen some of the content creators who use it to promote their content and I think it’s a promising idea to utilize it well.

I’m debating on going with a friend of mine to get some more shots to follow the ai generated images as a guideline for framing and story or whether the simple first takes are enough.

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canine is present

12x12 inch acrylic paint on canvas

$40usd

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Recent tidbits from the past few months. Drawing on my own experience of working with people in mind before really creating decisions that make sense for me to enjoy and organize myself and the material if possible to address them as simple enough to pass time and most revealing spaces to give attention to details that would define the effort to achieve a more engaging and meaningful conversation with people im not afraid to share with.

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im readying a table of contents for dodecahydron from this sketch pad. 120 sheets, and i think 7 sections numbered in sets of 13 and 24 A-G as though setting cords.

section C1-C12 are favorites and there’s an askewed version of F6- snake.

to do: add hyperlinks.

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10•10

with two new sets of paintings and small agri-sculpture, #telepathy and DODECAHEDRON, im glad to have settled on cardboard with hangers as a style of showing art like clothes racks.

i made a chord progression i like.

l: e+a———-e+a*flat

r:————-c—-d+a natural .

The challenge was to use the doggie ramp box as a frame and pin board. While stretching 5 ounce bottles of paint with aftershave and charcoal mask.

I’ve been both frustrated and enlightened by my lower back pain so finding ways to lounge to Neil and to humbly continue while documenting the process showed some of the futility of choosing ten frames on a chilli, hot scrum, DIY i Usually remember more things that I wanted to do or could do omitted from doing in front of camera breaking suspension of disbelief even while playing the “the artist presence is enough. “

care for an audience is debilitating as, right now, i imagine those who would have a quaint mercy or pity at a slight “aha, i too diligent”

1am-4am, trying to keep my mom calm while reeeeeeeealy exaggerating the scale of 6feet of person, standing, laying, and shuffling between about 3-4 feet of space, fresh out the hospital with #lumbosacral sprain. thank you piedmont. ^_^

Mixed feelings of futility and responsibility as having studied mass communication in the 20th century should I be documented as a historian as a retrospect or us planting seeds for future media bakers.

hope your decided affirmation biases appear, and that all you’ve applied to discipline this year begins to flourish without gritting teeth, easing into the natural reciprocal flow of breath like falling awake to sleep.

love y’all, also asking for how to take more opportunities to share and dialogue.

30$ big-boxes(quick cards, seeds, and whatever’s from the pantry for shipping.

check the archives.

trying to keep up with the times, as nina suggested, of course. anexcerptofhim

-larry



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sea shells set for morning glory

wyd?

watching paint dry 🥱🙄

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silt: /4 pieces:

settling slow // at first // like silk // river // mist.