New Soup

Much has occured since my last post, so I'm going to have run a couple of extra miles to get everything up to speed. Since I'm Korea at the moment, making art as regrettably become secondary. But nevertheless when I find myself in deeper thought than usual, I try to busy my hands. This is a product of that exercise.

Old Soup

I was going through some old files from the "fro-era", and this is one of the things I found. Its an old self portrait from middle school that seems to be inspired by Hokusai. to be honest this triggered a lot of memories; like when an older you finds a toy you hid from yourself for safe keeping on rainy Sunday. Or like when an old man hears a song of one sweet summer night's fling back in his 'glory days'. Nostalgia.

Spinal Tap

To make a long story short, I'm trying to do a series of these 'back pieces' on different girls. I think there is an air of piquing curiosity in this project. Also I feel it has its own risque elements that make each picture a little more captivating than others that I have previously created. This is due to the fact that the images were not edited, and the drawings on the girls' backs are real. I did them by hand, all with a black Sharpie marker. Does knowing the process pique the interest?

If 6 Was 9, and Paint Was Lead

This is what I have been doing all those times when I have slipped away from the hangouts and returned to the lair. Summary: I went up to D.C. and brought along a friend (it was her first time out of the state). We ventured to a few different parts of the city, starting in Columbia Heights and eventually finding ourselves in Georgetown. Once there, I came across this blown up photo mounted on to wood sitting outside of one of the high-end stores. Being the person that I am, I took upon myself to take it with us; Mind you, I had to make it all the way back to Columbia Heights from Georgetown, lugging this wooden rectangle for the whole trip; Metro to Metro. And so here she is in Richmond, and I laying some nice paints on her. Stay tuned for the finished product.