Bus Stop Mural

Later this week I'm going to be doing my first mural project at the new "Bus Stop" bar that is relocating to a new space at Olive and Denny in the wake of the demolition of the 500 block of Pine.

This is the final sketch of mural.  Now I need to print it, cut it, and spray it.

Paris Photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/conquer_the_world/sets/72157610777517072/

Paris

I leave at 2pm today.  Then 12 days of baguettes and no plans.

Obama Victory Rally Stencils/ Sweet 100 Show

I snapped a number of photos election night at the big victory rally at Broadway and Pike. Aside from documenting one of the greatest nights of my life,  I'm excited about these because they are my first attempt at creating stencils from the flash/long exposure shots I've been taking.

The stencils will be part of a group show at Suite 100 at 2222 2nd Ave in Belltown.  The opening reception is this Friday, 6-10... the same time as the opening reception for my Form/Space exhibit.

http://suite100gallery.com/show/2008/11/14/sweet-100

Spire Install, part 1

I was at Form/Space last night installing panels until 1am.  Here's what the show is looking like so far.  I still need to construct the actual spire/tower things.  Which also means I need to figure out what exactly I'm trying to make.  

I now have four days until the show and six days until I get on a plane for Paris and forget about this city for two weeks.

Working Working Working

As is typical, I had intended to update my Form/Space installation project daily and instead it's been two weeks since I put up the last post.  Anyways, here's a quick overview of the work so far.

Frame building.

Frames.

Stack of the finished panels. 

All the finished panels.  There's approximately 180-ish total.  100 8"x8", 60 12"x12", 15 18"x30", and 5 "large"panels.

Coating frames.

Cutting the stencils.  

Spraying.

Spraying.


Finished panels.

Small set up of the panels in the hallway.

At this point I just have the final large panels to finish and I just need to get ready for installing the show over the weekend and early next week.  The reception at Form/Space is November 14th, so I have just nine days left.

Last Night

one of the most amazing nights of my life.

Ready. Set. Go.

I now have been back from my California/Nevada/Oregon trip for nine days.

It's eight days to Halloween

Eleven days to the election

Thirteen days to November's art walk

And twenty two days to my show at Form/Space Atelier

And twenty four days before I get on a plane for Paris

Which leaves me with approximately three weeks to create the entirety of a show.

I'm now going to kick-start this blog into gear and hopefully be updating daily with work progress.

Essentially, for the Form/Space show, I'm going to create and installation combining a large constructed spire made of salvaged wood in the center of the space with the walls filled with single layer hand drawn stencils.  I'm also intending on adding banners of cut bird silhouettes.  The overall aim of the project is create an installation specific for the space that emphasizes the vertical quality of the gallery.  For those of you unfamiliar with the gallery, it is essential a large, wall to wall stairwell that reminds me of a 60's high school or some civic building.

It's now Thursday.  I spent Sunday as my first day full-on attacking the project, collecting three loads of pallet wood.

The day was beautiful, beautiful and perfect for hunting for wood.  Though a lot of the more reliable spots were vacant, including every granite tile location.

I then spent the entirety of Monday knocking the nails out of the boards. 

Then the entirety of Tuesday building frames.  Which included ripping some old frames apart.

Then for the past two days I've done nothing but computer work.  Which is somehow much, much draining than ripping pallets apart.

I'll get back to building frames after this.  And hopefully somehow I'll be able to finish all of these projects and intentions.

Printer Death

I left for Portland for the weekend, leaving my plotter cranking out stencils ready to be cut. Everything was working wonderfully when I left but somehow when I returned the printer was in error and won't recover from it. I've had this message come up before but this time the printer head won't even move. I've fought it all morning and have gotten no where. Which means I'm most likely going to have to get another printer. And considering how long it took to find this one (meaning a cheap and functioning plotter) finding another is not going to be fun.

New Concrete and Steel Sketches

I've spent the weekend working on sketching new stencils on the computer. Essentially these are the results of my past few days. The original photos are a mix of Seattle and Portland and majority of them are photo-merges. These are smaller than the previous works of the set and much more detailed with higher layer counts. I'm pretty excited.

New Nordstrom Sketches

Added a few final sketches for this series.

Death of a Squid

Progression of each stencil layer being printed over an old stencil. The squid just wasn't meant to last.