Wednesday, January 26, 2011

"All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to my failure. I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do." -Alberto Giacometti

I did these little paintings in the dark one night at one of my last studio hangout sessions a while ago. It was an odd night. They were mostly musicians, artists, happy, lively and all I wanted to do was crudely draw them on the floor. Since I made these, the people I drew have all changed in a lot of ways, to me, a haunting reminder of the transient nature of things. That's what I like about making art because it has in it the energy of that unique moment in time that will never be again. I put these up on here to help me think more about why I make art in the first place. I think looking at those moments make me sad because the moment has sort of died but in this new moment I'm experiencing now when I look at them, it's still real and alive in a different way, I suppose.





Friday, January 7, 2011


Bleary Eyed, Half awake.
I look for those who mean to sleep.

Push Push, Move Along,
Come on New York, Sing your Song.

Bound to ground. Hold steady your chain.

They know where we're going,
but they won't play our game.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010




"What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race" - Amedeo Modigliani

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

"While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill." -Kathe Kollwitz 1920

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A man should learn to detect...that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within...Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; and they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson





Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Friday, September 24, 2010

Brooklyn

"Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure..." Ingmar Bergman