secret toilet

re•set•ting

2009-03-14T15:12:00.012-04:00

i'm closing this blog and moving to flickr.

my flickr photo stream

a new hope

2009-02-26T20:16:00.001-05:00

* mixed media

32nd Small Works at Washington Square Gallery

2009-02-02T13:39:00.001-05:00

one of my drawings was accepted to this show, the 32nd Small Works. The show goes on until March 13th. For more details, www.nyu.edu/pages/galleries/sw/current/swinfo.html

composition

2009-01-26T23:21:00.001-05:00

another test composition

* mixed media

catching up

2009-01-26T16:56:00.003-05:00

finally figured out how to update blogger account from flickr, and now this blog is up to date. more updates are on my flickr photostream.

acquiesce

2009-01-26T16:55:00.003-05:00

Today we know that the world should be unified, just as we know that all men should have equal rights. Insofar as a man denies this or acquiesces in its denial, he denies the unity of his own self. Hence the profound psychological sickness of the imperialist countries, hence the corruption implicit in so much of their learning - when knowledge is used to deny knowledge. - John Berger

* mixed media

untitled

2009-01-26T16:55:00.001-05:00

an incidental compositional

* mixed media

Steve Reich Night poster

2009-01-26T16:54:00.009-05:00

final version

type experiment

2009-01-26T16:54:00.007-05:00

final version

details

2009-01-26T16:54:00.005-05:00

put things together. ready for submission, finally.

details

2009-01-26T16:54:00.003-05:00

ready for submission.

details

2009-01-26T16:54:00.001-05:00

ready for submission.

a new hope

2009-01-26T16:53:00.005-05:00

A particular kind of suffering was coming to an end: the suffering of hopelessness and defeat. People now believed, if not for themselves then for the future, in victory. The belief was often strongest where the conditions were worst. Everyone who was exploited or downtrodden and who had the strength left to ask about the purpose of his miserable life was able to hear in answer the echo of declarations like that of Lucheni, the Italian anarchist who stabbed the Empress of Austria in 1989: 'The hour is not far distant when a new sun will shine upon all men alike'; or like that of Kalyaev in 1905 who, on being sentenced to death for the assassination of the Governor-General of Moscow, told the court 'to learn to look the advancing revolution straight in the eye'.

An end was in sight. The limitless, which until now had always reminded men of the unattainability of their hopes, became suddenly an encouragement. The world became a starting point. - John Berger

* mixed media

a new hope

2009-01-26T16:53:00.003-05:00

We're talking here of the violence inherent in a system: not only direct physical violence, but also the more subtle forms of coercion that sustain relations of dominion and exploitation, including the threat of violence. - Slavoj Žižek

* pen on tracing paper

severance

2009-01-26T16:53:00.001-05:00

We're talking about the violence inherent in a system: not only direct physical violence, but also the more subtle forms of coercion that sustain relations of domination and exploitation, including the threat of violence. - Slavoj Žižek

* pen on tracing paper, mixed media

severance

2009-01-26T16:52:00.005-05:00

Creative Quarterly No. 13

2009-01-26T16:52:00.003-05:00

three drawings are being publish in the new issues of Creative Quarterly, to be out soon.

severance

2009-01-26T16:52:00.001-05:00

untitled endeavor

2009-01-26T16:51:00.003-05:00

a little doodling.

* pen on tracing paper

the history of progress

2009-01-26T16:51:00.001-05:00

* mixed media

the history of progress

2009-01-26T16:50:00.001-05:00

* mixed media

the progress

2008-11-23T19:46:00.000-05:00

* pen on tracing paper

a new hope

2008-11-23T03:46:00.001-05:00

* pen on tracing paper

a new hope

2008-11-20T02:02:00.001-05:00

faculty show

2008-11-16T22:27:00.002-05:00

i'm showing a few pieces of severed fingers at the Art Institute of New York City. The opening is on Thursday, 20th of November. Any one near by are invited.

i'm really curious how the school will react to the severed fingers with tips of bones sticking out. ;)

ps) the very attractive poster was designed by a colleague.

severance

2008-11-16T22:26:00.002-05:00

We need to 'learn, learn, and learn' what causes this violence. - Slavoj Žižek

* pen on tracing paper, a page from the Bible, acrylic medium on canvas board

severance

2008-11-16T00:27:00.001-05:00

* pen on tracing paper

a new hope

2008-11-15T16:05:00.000-05:00

* pen on tracing paper

severance

2008-11-12T08:16:00.002-05:00

the last piece for a small show, done and framed.

* mixed media

a new hope

2008-11-11T21:00:00.001-05:00

* pen on tracing paper

severance series

2008-11-05T21:23:00.002-05:00

framed and ready for a minor show, finally.

severance

2008-11-04T20:57:00.001-05:00

Such propaganda preserves within people outdated structures of feeling and thinking whilst forcing new experiences upon them. It transforms them into puppets - whilst most of the strain brought about by the transformation remains politically harmless as ineveitably incoherent frustration. - John Berger

* pen on tracing paper

severance

2008-11-02T20:22:00.001-05:00

severance

2008-11-02T02:15:00.001-05:00

is it really possible to change a dead history? to have a hope?

on a different side of this possibly meaningless and insignificant endeavor confusion emerges, as always.

* pen on tracing paper

a new hope

2008-10-31T23:05:00.002-04:00

* pen on tracing paper

a new hope

2008-10-31T01:03:00.004-04:00

* pen on tracing

severance

2008-10-28T18:58:00.003-04:00

trying to figure out what made me come back to this series.

* pen on tracing paper

a new hope

2008-10-25T01:17:00.002-04:00

a new hope

2008-10-25T01:15:00.002-04:00

* pen on tracing paper

a new hope

2008-10-22T20:21:00.002-04:00

An end was in sight. The limitless, which until now had always reminded men of the unattainability of their hopes, became suddenly an encouragement. The world became a starting point.

and now, one hundred years later, is it really possible to have a new hope, again?

* pen on tracing paper

a new hope

2008-10-21T19:27:00.001-04:00

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. - John Berger

* pen on tracing paper

their stories

2008-10-08T19:59:00.002-04:00

on the Brooklyn bound R train, waiting for it to move at 8th Street Station, Manhattan, NY

a new hope

2008-10-08T19:46:00.000-04:00

didn't history end a few centuries ago?

* pen on tracing paper

severance - a new hope

2008-10-05T22:20:00.001-04:00

* pen on tracing paper

memories

2008-09-26T23:16:00.000-04:00

severance - retrospective

2008-08-29T00:18:00.002-04:00

* pen on tracing paper

severance

2008-08-28T00:59:00.000-04:00

* pen on tracing paper

severance

2008-08-25T21:35:00.000-04:00

* pen on tracing paper

typographica

2008-08-25T21:33:00.001-04:00

Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY

Joanna

2008-08-19T01:22:00.002-04:00

one of my favorite dolls, named after the beautiful typeface.

their stories

2008-08-19T00:31:00.001-04:00

an old couple i met in the Chinatown in Brooklyn.

moments

2008-08-18T23:52:00.002-04:00

Chinatown, Brooklyn, NY

typographica suburbia

2008-08-18T03:06:00.000-04:00

Brooklyn, NY

severance

2008-08-16T23:27:00.002-04:00

severance

2008-08-12T15:57:00.001-04:00

a stance

2008-08-10T19:54:00.002-04:00

Despair without fear, without resignation, without sense of defeat, makes for a stance towards the world. - John Berger

at Brooklyn Museum of Art

2008-08-09T16:29:00.000-04:00

at the show, Ghada Amer: Love Has No End. amazing works.

severance

2008-08-08T02:30:00.000-04:00

* pen on tracing paper

severance

2008-08-04T20:36:00.002-04:00

* pen on tracing paper

severance

2008-08-03T16:47:00.003-04:00

How far can talent exempt an artist if he does not think beyond or question the decadence of cultural situation to which he belongs? - John Berger

* pen on tracing paper

severance

2008-08-02T21:44:00.001-04:00

* pen on tracing paper

severance

2008-08-01T21:50:00.002-04:00

How far can talent exempt an artist if he does not think beyond or question the decadence of cultural situation to which he belongs? - John Berger

* pen on tracing paper

study of obsession

2008-07-24T01:16:00.004-04:00

mixed media

obsession

2008-07-23T11:38:00.001-04:00

mixed media, Giclée

obsession

2008-07-23T11:36:00.001-04:00

mixed media, Giclée

untitled

2008-06-22T23:10:00.004-04:00

for my little friend's
wonderful journey.
good bye gm.

zoo center

2008-06-18T23:00:00.002-04:00

at the Bronx Zoo.

the father and the son

2008-06-18T22:59:00.000-04:00

* mixed media

LITTLE PIECES

2008-06-04T06:21:00.002-04:00

having a show in Williamsburg. "little pieces" under 12 inches. sounds fun?

untitled

2008-05-28T15:46:00.003-04:00

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. - J. Berger

* ink on tracing paper

severance

2008-04-25T12:24:00.003-04:00

when it was hopeless
there was a hope.
there is no hope
and it's not even hopeless.

* mixed media

severance

2008-04-18T15:43:00.000-04:00

when it was hopeless
there was a hope.
there is no hope
and it's not even hopeless.

* pen on tracing paper

midnight snack

2008-04-18T15:40:00.004-04:00

delicious midnight snack.

tribute

2008-04-15T22:52:00.003-04:00

a little tribute to some of the greatest artists

(i should love to get out of the ugly madness which i'm so dependent upon and vulnerable to.)

* mixed media

quiet come the om me th re i am out hope m witho has bor am

2008-04-12T23:52:00.003-04:00

mixed media

untitled

2008-04-06T18:32:00.002-04:00

* mixed media

frustra

2008-03-24T15:45:00.004-04:00

pen and color pencils on paper. Giclée print.

PS) the writing was removed following a friendly warning from a friend.

broken

2008-02-25T21:24:00.002-05:00

mixed media

broken

2008-02-13T00:31:00.001-05:00

mixed media

untitled

2008-02-01T12:50:00.001-05:00

another batch arrived. all bisque, beautiful.

corruptio

2008-02-01T06:59:00.000-05:00

mixed media

reminiscence

2008-01-31T20:58:00.000-05:00

new additions to my collections. all bisque.

untitled

2008-01-28T00:50:00.000-05:00

so many little secret corners in Brooklyn.

memor

2008-01-26T21:58:00.000-05:00

mixed media

memories

2008-01-26T20:07:00.000-05:00

in my neighborhood, where every corner has little surprises.

memories

2008-01-23T21:31:00.000-05:00

before bed,
after an attack

pony

2008-01-21T22:19:00.000-05:00

i'm still playing with my newly acquired toys, the metal types got from eBay and the really very tiny little SLR camera from Olympus. and i'm loving them.

morbus

2008-01-20T08:54:00.000-05:00

another take on the same subject.

mixed media

movable types

2008-01-19T18:39:00.000-05:00

just received assorted (really a big mess of) movable metal types won at eBay. and i'm loving them.

The Original Small Works

2008-01-18T19:01:00.000-05:00

of the three submitted, only one was accepted. the one accepted was not the one expected to be. guess which one of the above three. still very happy. dear friends and visitors, the show starts with an opening on Feb 2nd and ends on March 14th at the NYU gallery.

sutura

2008-01-17T02:46:00.000-05:00

Illustration Friday: Stitch
The choice in thickness (strength) of the suture is based on the location sutured. Fine suture is used for work around the eyes, face and digits. - Online Medical Dictionary

Mixed Media

memories

2008-01-14T00:18:00.000-05:00

I am very quiet. Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me. - All Quiet on the Western Front

mixed media, 11 by 14 inches

memoria

2008-01-12T13:20:00.000-05:00

mixed media

morbus

2008-01-02T01:56:00.000-05:00

morbus vocis was the original title. sick again. ab actu ad posse valet illatio.

mixed media

ex aura

2007-12-31T15:26:00.000-05:00

Illustration Friday: soar
maintain height in the air without flapping wings or using engine power - Dictionary app, MacOS X

mixed media

oportet

2007-12-30T22:48:00.001-05:00

I'm very quiet

2007-12-27T22:13:00.000-05:00

merry xmas

2007-12-26T20:36:00.000-05:00

walking in the neighborhood, full of gigantic extravagant ornaments all all over, late on xmas eve. a bit sick, went crazy with bike riding in the middle of the night, the muscle pain from riding bike helps with the sickness.

photograph

selective breeding and other contrubutions to the advancement of the human race

2007-12-26T01:44:00.000-05:00

mixed media

midnight radio

2007-12-11T23:11:00.001-05:00

Midnight Radio ¶Rain falls hard Burns dry A dream Or a song That hits you so hard Filling you up And suddenly gone • Breathe feel love Give free Know in your soul Like your blood knows the way From your heart to your brain Knows that you're whole • And you're shining Like the brightest star A transmission On the midnight radio And you're spinning Like a 45 Ballerina Dancing to your rock and roll • Here's to Patti And Tina And Yoko Aretha And Nona And Nico And me And all the strange rock and rollers You know you're doing all right So hold on to each other You gotta hold on tonight • And you're shining Like the brightest star A transmission On the midnight radio And you're spinning Your new 45 All the misfits and the losers Yeah, you know you're rock and rollers Spinning to your rock and roll • Lift up your hands Lift up your hands Lift up your hands Lift up your hands Lift up your hands Lift up your hands.

yet another tribute to John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, and their amazing rock musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

mixed media

* the fume from the alcohol based markers is killing me.