Work In Progress

2011-08-22T14:44:00.003-04:00

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INSPIRATION #4

GERMANY

SWEDEN

from Wooden Houses, Futagawa and Suzuki, 1978

2011-02-08T23:20:00.006-05:00

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2010-09-23T09:23:00.006-04:00

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NEW WORK, AND A SHOW!

October 1 at the Murphy in Indianapolis.

2010-09-16T21:10:00.002-04:00

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FINALLY, JEEZ...

Puffy hanging out in the spearmint.

2010-06-07T23:03:00.002-04:00

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PAIRS

2010-01-03T21:40:00.004-05:00

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SELL OUT

Finally got around to starting an etsy shop. I'll add a few more things soon and see how it goes. Visit it here.

2009-11-29T22:22:00.003-05:00

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SLOW TIMES

Getting lost in the details.

2009-09-29T01:25:00.005-04:00

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CUTE ATTACK!

I'm in awe of how disgustingly cute my walnuts are turning out. They'll be for sale at this weekend's Handicraft Exchange.

2009-09-22T17:56:00.006-04:00

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FOREST SPIRITS

Preparing some paintings, embroideries, and nut sculptures for the Handicraft Exchange October 2-3. New work & old work, all will be for sale embarrassingly cheap.

2009-07-19T18:24:00.005-04:00

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ONE THING TO ANOTHER

Clip from a video I just put together, showing at Big Car (Indianapolis), Monday July 20, 7pm.

2009-06-12T21:09:00.004-04:00

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NEW SHIRTS

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE! before flocking is applied to Nietzsche's mustache.

Bearded cats, being unsure.

I'll be selling these and more on 6/13 at the corner of 17th & Pennsylvania in Indianapolis. Possibly also 6/14. If you can't make it, I have an etsy shop in the works...

2009-05-07T23:52:00.005-04:00

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BEHINDS

Another new series, flashe on panel.

2009-04-10T17:48:00.003-04:00

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TINY SCULPTURES

A new series. Bits of nature collected from the forest and beach living inside plastic cups.

2009-04-09T18:19:00.004-04:00

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METICULOUSNESS

Details from two embroideries I've been working on since January. I think I'm in over my head on these.

2009-03-31T23:35:00.004-04:00

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1651 ENGLISH AVENUE

See some new work Friday night at the studio.
Events will be posted here: Mt. Comfort.
Bigger and better things to come this spring.

2009-03-24T01:12:00.002-04:00

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ME YOU, WE PIE

Garden planters at the Beer Can House in Houston. "I guess I just thought it was a good idea. And it's easier than painting."

2009-03-02T16:41:00.021-05:00

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FIVE MINUTE SHOW

i'm in the asdf / in real life show at capricious space in brooklyn this month. the work above will be up and available to download and print for five minutes (at capricious, golden age in chicago, and online), but only on march 28, sometime between 4 and 8 pm. [or you can just ask me and i'll send you the file.]
more walking projects coming soon...

UPDATE: it looks like i'll be up at 7:25-7:30pm.

2009-02-22T00:36:00.010-05:00

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THINGS THAT ARE LOST, PART 1

2009-02-09T21:25:00.004-05:00

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INSPIRATION #4

My sister took this photo in northern Japan. It's wonderful beyond words.

2009-02-01T22:22:00.003-05:00

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LOOKOUTS

Big Bend Texas and San Pedro California

Over the years I've photographed quite a few lookouts... it's almost time to put them all together.

2009-01-19T01:48:00.004-05:00

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LET'S HIBERNATE, OK?

Continuing the winter embroidery series with everyone's favorite– a (almost) hidden glow in the dark message.

2009-01-12T23:26:00.005-05:00

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INSPIRATION #3 / COLLECTION #3

Long time favorites from my assorted-things-made-of-paper collection.
top: Museum of Jurassic Technology mailing
middle: 1911 Niagara Falls postcard
bottom: mysterious hand-tinted photo

2009-01-10T01:01:00.005-05:00

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REPHOTOGRAPHY

1954

2008

Sampson Naval Training Center, New York

This is one of several infrastructure sites I rephotographed based on USDA aerials from the 1930s–60s. The jetty in the top photo was used to dock submarines at the time the photo was taken; the same jetty is now a fishing pier in a state park.

2008-12-21T22:25:00.007-05:00

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EMBROIDERY

These are the first in a new series about winter gloominess. I despise winter.
top- Hold Me (I'm Cold)
bottom- One Who Lives Near a Frozen Swamp (My Puffy
Coat #1)

2008-12-09T00:10:00.003-05:00

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T-SHIRTS!

Everyone who knows Dee Dee wants her face adorning their chest. She's just that kind of person. Email me if you want to order one, even if you don't know her. It would make me so happy to see a random stranger walking around in one of these someday.
[photo by and of David Brant]

2008-11-24T23:54:00.006-05:00

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SAINTS!

Patron Saint of Awkward Conversations

Patron Saint of Regrettable Emails

Patron Saint of Crying in Public

Patron Saint of Overdrawn Checking Accounts

Patron Saint of Rejection Letters

See them (and more) at the Harrison Center's gallery in December.

2008-11-15T23:50:00.002-05:00

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EVIL VS. GOOD

About 1" in diameter, and they glow in the dark!

2008-11-12T12:52:00.005-05:00

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INSPIRATION #2

Highlights from the Patton Museum in Kentucky, a very strange place.

2008-11-04T17:16:00.005-05:00

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PATRON SAINT OF OVERDUE LIBRARY BOOKS

A new series, The Patron Saints, using the aforementioned hedge-apple tree slices.

2008-10-24T23:39:00.003-04:00

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INSPIRATION #1

From my travels. Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, and Wisconsin.

2008-10-19T18:07:00.003-04:00

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OFFICE MALAISE TRAVELS TO THE SEA, part two

2008-10-16T23:16:00.002-04:00

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MORE GHOSTS

Details of the work we installed today. I'm tired of ghosts now.

2008-10-15T12:00:00.007-04:00

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GHOSTS

This week I'm working with Casey on an installation for a ghost show in Zionsville, opening Friday. There will be eight fully haunted geodes, three dead cats, and at least forty cat-ghosts.

2008-10-12T21:42:00.006-04:00

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COLLECTION #2

Photoshop silhouette layers (collected between January '07 and July '08 at the Johnson Museum of Art).

2008-10-07T12:56:00.004-04:00

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HAUNTED GEODES

There's a dry stream bed nearby where one can always find big fat geodes (not to mention bits of crinoids everywhere). This one I broke apart and decided it needed a resident ghost and possibly some fog.

2008-09-29T00:46:00.004-04:00

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ILL-TEMPERED NIC-NACS

i've been busy making things for the "indieana" craft hullabaloo on friday. stop by and buy my stuff!

2008-09-09T10:51:00.003-04:00

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LOVELY LOG SLICES

From the hedgeapple tree in the backyard.

2008-09-08T12:17:00.003-04:00

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BEER TREE

2008-08-05T22:31:00.003-04:00

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GOODBYE NEW YORK

Lake George.

I'm moving and may not be able to post for a while. Thanks everyone for the nice comments.

2008-07-20T01:46:00.003-04:00

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RUINS, PART 1

A decommissioned missile silo in the snow, two inches in diameter. Possible series of my favorite ruins from around the world forthcoming.

2008-07-02T21:33:00.003-04:00

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COLLECTION #1

my inbox

2008-06-24T20:45:00.003-04:00

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POP-UP

February in Niagara. I'm just glad it's over.

2008-06-01T21:22:00.000-04:00

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SUSPICIOUS EYES

2008-05-31T14:41:00.004-04:00

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NEW SERIES?

Office malaise
or
The clock and the filing cabinet travel to the sea

2008-05-22T22:56:00.002-04:00

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La Ville Souterraine, or Post-Apocalyptic Purgatory

Two of the many amazing corridors in Montreal's underground city.

2008-05-08T21:13:00.003-04:00

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MISCELLANEOUS #2

Tennessee

2008-04-23T22:35:00.001-04:00

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MISCELLANEOUS #1

Bonneville salt flats

2008-04-23T22:12:00.004-04:00

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DETAIL

Not intending to do so, I spent the last couple months toiling away on a quilt...my first venture into the strange land of quilting.

2008-04-06T14:12:00.004-04:00

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ENVELOPE

My entry for Museo de Filatelia's mail art show. Hand stitched with embroidery floss.

2008-03-31T15:20:00.007-04:00

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"THE LAB"

Death of a particle accelerator.

2008-03-05T23:26:00.002-05:00

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TREE TRUNKS

I snow-shoed in the forest and happened upon some lovely barked trees.

2008-01-27T18:40:00.001-05:00

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ANOTHER POP-UP

Friendly cacti.

2008-01-26T10:31:00.000-05:00

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STUDY FOR A NEW SERIES

Confrontations with monsters and/or inner demons.

2008-01-26T09:41:00.002-05:00

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SENECA ARMY DEPOT

I had a rare opportunity to go inside the formerly top secret triple-fenced area at Seneca Army Depot. One of the buildings inside was this one, a faux-building made of solid concrete. Underneath is a small passageway (on right), which goes through a series of vault doors which in turn leads into a very small empty room.

2008-01-19T18:26:00.000-05:00

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SPY PHOTOS

This is a series I've been working on for a while now. They're all from Utah, all of cold war era military sites, most abandoned, some still in use.

2008-01-18T17:24:00.001-05:00

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MOROSE SQUIRREL #2

This is the first in a series of portraits of critters hit by cars (mine or witnessed by me). A means of honoring their lives and assuaging my guilty conscience.