1999
DecemberBest tunes
As long as Sam and I have been friends, its been fun listening to records together, and then distilling those sounds into his band. Perhaps someday I will live up to my dream to produce or engineer recordings, but in the short term, when Sea and Cake was off for awhile, Sam and Jim O'Rourke met up along with Chad and Archer to record this solo record. Even though the parts were more than a bit of Brazilian (courtesy Dusty Groove) its more than the sum of its parts, and still holds up beautifully. Keep em coming Sammy.
November Magnet drawings
For my show at Vedanta gallery (now Kavi Gupta Gallery )this time, I was still exhibiting the light sculptures, but was quickly tiring of how time consuming they are (anyone who said minimalism was was easy was wrong) so it came to me a form of "drawing' that is sculptural, and honestly a bit easier to iterate. The basic form was that the 'drawing' part was actually iron filings. By introducing magnets within a structure, and then using some medium like paper to be the canvas and the filings with magnetism holding the paper to the structure.
The fun part was spreading out the filings - since this fits with my philosophy of 'whole' parts being removable or reusable, I thought the juxtaposition of non-permanent markings on paper would be the main interest of the viewer. However, they seemed more interested in touching it, and since it was just filings, there was a fair amount of 'graffiti' that I had to tend to. All in all, the interactive element really shines again, people do like to play with their art.
June Photo bug bites
With digital cameras just beginning to have some maturity, I'm starting out the photo thing. I call it the photo thing because it will take some time before I really get comfortable with the images coming out of this thing. As I begin, its haphazard, but now I really have this thing for piles of bricks. It appeals to me because it is a seemingly random arrangement of elements, that in a sense has some reason behind it. When I get rid of 'photoshoping' out the distracting stuff, they amusingly look a lot like 'real' buildings.