the quiet is almost complete. One more victim, and then it ends.
I will be submitting this to a online company that publishes books in hopes that I can have the quiet published as a photography book, telling the story from beginning to end with my images. I also intend on designing the book cover, etc myself.
In the next week I will be expanding my normal photography portfolio (portrait style) and I will be working on another etching for my faces series.
Open model call- if you're interested, please e-mail me at lex@thedarkhallway.com
- Lex.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
I've been working on a series called "The Quiet." It's a photography five part series involving a male protagonist (model: Jesse Campbell) who murders women in different forms of asphyxiation. I am three shoots into the series, two more to go. I will post pictures soon.
I am also finishing my series of jars, they are at the EKU Campbell building for students to put different objects they see fit in them. And I am also working on a four part dry point series temporarily entitled "faces."
Stay posted for more updates.
- Lex.
I am also finishing my series of jars, they are at the EKU Campbell building for students to put different objects they see fit in them. And I am also working on a four part dry point series temporarily entitled "faces."
Stay posted for more updates.
- Lex.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Well, since apparently I am more rusty with web design than I anticipated, I am still working on the official website design. When I was 13 or 14 learning HTML I learned very quickly and wrote most of my html in notepad without using any software. Now at 22 I am using dreamweaver and am having a difficult time. So it will be up soon, the graphics and content have already been created, I just need to work out the html kinks and then voila, The Dark Hallway will be born.
Also I've been dabbling in photography, there will probably be a lot of updates in that area coming soon. I am also working on a 5 part edition of dry points. I'm still working on it's title.
- Lex
Also I've been dabbling in photography, there will probably be a lot of updates in that area coming soon. I am also working on a 5 part edition of dry points. I'm still working on it's title.
- Lex
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Here are the last five prints in my 'cards' series. I am looking forward to starting my next endeavors, including finishing the website as soon as finals are over next week. Expect lots of new artwork this summer as I am going to venture out into different printmaking techniques, and perhaps a concentration on etching though I haven't quite decided yet.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
I want a video camera I've decided.
I have plans for documenting certain things, particularily artistic processes, mine and others. Maybe interviews. I'm not sure what direction it would take me in, but I think I would enjoy dabbling in it.
I am also making a series of glass jars ranging in size, color, dimensions, and internal objects. For instance, one large jar with blue, a small object suspending inside the jar by string, or floating on top depending on what it's purpose is in my vision of what should be in the jar and what it means. I'd like to print original labels for each jar, perhaps from linocuts or wood cuts, I haven't decided yet, and attach the labels with twine to the jars. This correlates with the tarot series, and during installation there should be shelves (they should be black) where the jars will be placed underneath their correlating print.
- Lex.
I have plans for documenting certain things, particularily artistic processes, mine and others. Maybe interviews. I'm not sure what direction it would take me in, but I think I would enjoy dabbling in it.
I am also making a series of glass jars ranging in size, color, dimensions, and internal objects. For instance, one large jar with blue, a small object suspending inside the jar by string, or floating on top depending on what it's purpose is in my vision of what should be in the jar and what it means. I'd like to print original labels for each jar, perhaps from linocuts or wood cuts, I haven't decided yet, and attach the labels with twine to the jars. This correlates with the tarot series, and during installation there should be shelves (they should be black) where the jars will be placed underneath their correlating print.
- Lex.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The first post is always exciting in a new blog.
The topic of discussion- my work, as this website will be primarily a tool for putting my artwork online and possibly selling prints, etc. I am almost finished with my ten part linocut series that I have yet to name. For the time being the name has been the 'Tarot' series, but I'm thinking about calling it the 'Dark Arcana' as a play off of the major and minor arcanas in every set of tarot cards. My last print was decidedly 'Death' as it is the ending, the final, the ultimate, and it should be the last in the series.
Over the summer I intend on embarking on starting my 'heads' series. This will involve making ten 'heads in a box.' The most common question I've had thus far is if I'm going to make the jack in the box heads functional with the crank as opposed to having the crank as merely decoration. Honestly I don't think that it would help or hinder my piece of the crank did in fact work, because the point of the series was having boxes too small to actually put these human sized heads in. I was playing off of a particular little joke or commentary on function, and I thought it was amusing to make non functioning jack in the boxes, with "actual" human heads in them.
This idea originated with the creation of Bob. Bob was my first head in a box, and will sadly not be in the actual series, though he sparked this creative endeavor. Instead of the cartoonish acrylic painted box idea, I have now decided to incorporate my personal favorite medium of working- printmaking, into this mixed media project. What I will essentially be doing is creating a story for every head in the box. Each head will be a fictional serial killer, murderer, someone who has wronged other people. I will make prints detailing the events that took place (kind of like a diorama) that goes around the box, and then for the lid of the box on one side will be an accurate portrait of the person before the "incident," and then a portrait of their inner selves which will almost always be more terrifying than their real appearance. I would like to do ten of these. I intend to have at least one evil child's head, but I didn't want to make evil children the focal point of the series so for the most part the heads will be adults.
My goal is to update this every other day, as much as I possibly can with either new pictures, ideas or updates until I get the full site up and running. Some posts might be more personal than others, but I assure that the majority of this blog will be soley based on my artistic endeavors.
Two shows I was a part of have just recently gone down, and if you didn't get a chance to see them perhaps (and I certainly hope so) there will be more. The ASA Student show in the Giles Gallery in Richmond, Ky just came down yesterday where my print "The Tower" was shown, and the Lexington Gallery Hop has come and gone where "The Maiden," "The Queen of Swords," and "The Chariot" were all shown at the Sisohpfromatem gallery in Lexington, Ky.
Stay tuned.
- Lex.
The topic of discussion- my work, as this website will be primarily a tool for putting my artwork online and possibly selling prints, etc. I am almost finished with my ten part linocut series that I have yet to name. For the time being the name has been the 'Tarot' series, but I'm thinking about calling it the 'Dark Arcana' as a play off of the major and minor arcanas in every set of tarot cards. My last print was decidedly 'Death' as it is the ending, the final, the ultimate, and it should be the last in the series.
Over the summer I intend on embarking on starting my 'heads' series. This will involve making ten 'heads in a box.' The most common question I've had thus far is if I'm going to make the jack in the box heads functional with the crank as opposed to having the crank as merely decoration. Honestly I don't think that it would help or hinder my piece of the crank did in fact work, because the point of the series was having boxes too small to actually put these human sized heads in. I was playing off of a particular little joke or commentary on function, and I thought it was amusing to make non functioning jack in the boxes, with "actual" human heads in them.
This idea originated with the creation of Bob. Bob was my first head in a box, and will sadly not be in the actual series, though he sparked this creative endeavor. Instead of the cartoonish acrylic painted box idea, I have now decided to incorporate my personal favorite medium of working- printmaking, into this mixed media project. What I will essentially be doing is creating a story for every head in the box. Each head will be a fictional serial killer, murderer, someone who has wronged other people. I will make prints detailing the events that took place (kind of like a diorama) that goes around the box, and then for the lid of the box on one side will be an accurate portrait of the person before the "incident," and then a portrait of their inner selves which will almost always be more terrifying than their real appearance. I would like to do ten of these. I intend to have at least one evil child's head, but I didn't want to make evil children the focal point of the series so for the most part the heads will be adults.
My goal is to update this every other day, as much as I possibly can with either new pictures, ideas or updates until I get the full site up and running. Some posts might be more personal than others, but I assure that the majority of this blog will be soley based on my artistic endeavors.
Two shows I was a part of have just recently gone down, and if you didn't get a chance to see them perhaps (and I certainly hope so) there will be more. The ASA Student show in the Giles Gallery in Richmond, Ky just came down yesterday where my print "The Tower" was shown, and the Lexington Gallery Hop has come and gone where "The Maiden," "The Queen of Swords," and "The Chariot" were all shown at the Sisohpfromatem gallery in Lexington, Ky.
Stay tuned.
- Lex.
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