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.
