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| Tuesday, 13-Jul-2004 00:00 |
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Oranges and blues
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Yesterday's sunset made me weak in the knees (which may have been related to the heat, but that's beside the point).
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| Saturday, 10-Jul-2004 00:00 |
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One of the more fantastic aspects of living in Arkansas is that we're at this climatic juncture that essentially serves as a favorite battle ground between hot Gulf humidity and cool Plains dryness. Montana may have prior claim to 'big sky,' but I think we have a fair case for using the same phrase in a different regard. Especially in the early summer, these air masses collide and produce thunderheads so damn large that I feel dwarved by them, made tiny by pillars of wet air that are too brilliant to look at for long. Everyone has their favorite details about local climate--this sky is defninitely mine.
I took these on Thursday while driving home from work. It's finally getting really hot and humid, so storms seem an almost daily occurence (a nice change in the wake of the drought we'd been having over the past few years). The second image is of a local apparition, an 'ambient rainbow' that coalesces from the extremely humid air as it begins condensing in the cooling late-afternoon atmosphere--I've never seen these outside of the Southern U.S., but I'm interested to know if anyone else has. Also, though it doesn't show up well in this image, look closely above the easily visible rainbow to see the faint ghost of it's inverted twin.
Some of my favorite clouds are those that obliquely obscure the sun, producing almost fluoresent rims and creating crepuscular rays, and the tall pillars that trace hot bubbles of gas as they escape buoyantly upward into cooler, denser air.
Later that night a fast, turbulent storm tore through, allowing me the opportunity to capture the fleeting brightness of a lightening bolt (which shows up through the branches on the right) amid the matte dark of a rainy night.
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| Friday, 9-Jul-2004 00:00 |
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Fun with the office copier
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...for those days when work just sucks.
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| Sunday, 4-Jul-2004 00:00 |
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A return
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I've been quite the absentee lately, but with good reason. I have decided on, and paid my deposit for, my graduate program of choice, I've gained a salaried position with benefits (though, admittedly, one I have to forfeit in two months for the prior achievement), and I had a birthday last Friday. Yup, yup, I'm at 24 now, a nice age I imagine. I feel entirely too old, but I acknowledge that I've probably still got a few good years left in me (wink, wink to my elders).
I've rediscovered some images from the opening ceremony of the student competitive in the fine arts department in the university where I work. All of the ceramics and fiber arts students (and, hell, everyone else, actually) were protesting the university's decision to replace one of the more experimental instructors by wearing shirts and signs throughout the occasion to at least alert the administrative forces that the student will was not in accord.
Happy Independence Day everyone! May this day of national vigor be mirrored also in a bit of self-reflection.
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| Wednesday, 23-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Mis en scène, first full day of summer, eight p.m.
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The view into Kellogg Valley from Miller Road after a day of storms. Steam was rising in feathered pillars from the coolest spots over the swampland, and in the east one could see sheets of falling rain transilluminated shell pink by the westerly setting sun. I certainly hope all of that tiny detail registers on this tiny .jpg adaptation (the full resolution version is a monstrous 38 MB), but if not, enjoy the lights and clouds regardless.
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| Friday, 18-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Gallery, pseudoporn
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Selections from the current exhibition in Gallery 1 of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. It's nice to work on campus; when I get to feeling a little overworked, I can walk through the trees for a few minutes, browse through the gallery, and come back to my desk feeling a bit better.
Otherwise I end up goofing off with the camera with officemates. It's obscenely simple to distort pictures of innocuous piles of body parts into suggestive erotica. Suggestiveness is fun.
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| Thursday, 17-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Fire
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| Tuesday, 15-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Pbth
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Completed and hung
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Work can be such a dull place some days. I wish I could bring some paint and canvas up here. These aren't anything illustrious, but here are some fairly recent goof-off shots of an open piece on the easel.
Acrylic, ink, and pencil on canvas. The gobs of white are simply raw acrylic media without pigment, so, depending on their consituent components, they dry to transparency with varying degrees of gloss or matte surface characteristics. Layers and layers of alternating media and transparency (especially applying occasional layers of almost purely matte solids) gives a wonderfully thick and semi-opaque character that reminds me of encaustic Roman/Egyption funerary portraiture. By the time I'd finished this portrait I'd laid out at least forty individual layers of work. It's time consuming as a process but counterintuitively pleasant as a practice. It's my meditation. I'll post a shot of the finished project when I get home.
I hope everyone else is having a more fulfilling day than I.
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| Saturday, 12-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Predicatable
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I told you all I have a fetish. I offer my apologies for all the clouds of late; blame the beauty of Arkansas before the dryness of middle summer arrives.
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| Wednesday, 9-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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Lilies
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It's fun to go out and take pictures with no props other than a big piece of paper.
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