I was selected as one of the artists to create commissioned work for the new United terminal at Houston Intercontinental Airport. These two artworks now make for a total of three in the city’s collection. I am very happy to be included as a part of our city’s welcome to the inbound traveller. They are expected to be completed and installed sometime in the early Fall of 2019.
Here is what they look like.
But I’ve been busy. Here is another example of new work to be included in a new project gallery sometime soon. Click on the image below for detail views…
Monochrome is really nice, too. So, here is another bit of newness for your viewing pleasure. Click on the image to get detail views.
As I have hinted - new things are afoot.
Here is an example.
More to come…
I have been selected as one of the finalists to create art for (… I need to keep it secret until formally announced…).
By way of celebration, I will share something new. Click on the image for details.
I’ll be back soon with more news and views.
We are in the final throes of repairing our home and moving into it. Meanwhile, here are a couple of details from works-in-progress. These present an area about 4” across…
Much more to come soon…
I had a little over a week off of work. I left my home in Ogden, Utah for an extended exploration of the landscape around Moab. Just before I arrived, a blizzard had blown through the area and all was blanketed in drifting, powdery snow (up to 3’ or 4’ in places). There was about 6” of snow on vertical cliff faces (it really blew through).
These detail views from a recent work in progress bring that holiday back to me. I was the only one in a very snowy Arches National Park - hiking waist-deep in powder through Fin Canyon.
I saw things like this there and at nearby Fisher Towers…
I might as well confess, I also spend a lot of time looking at maps.
I’ve been thinking about what goes on with me when I make art that may not be apparent to those who view a finished piece. The computer is one of my primary tools, and when working in some software, I am constantly zooming in to view the details of an image. Like a microscope, I can explore the structure and beauty of the minute details.
Here are closeup views from two different images I’ve been working on,
I have spent many years exploring the flowscapes of the Colorado Plateau and fell in love with both the large scale structures as well as the small details erosive processes carve into the land. Further, the dendritic structures look like so many trees pressed into the landscape.
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After I posted the above, I realized that some photographs that I have taken of landscapes might be appropriate.
Here are a few examples of land-forms that interest me...
I’ll come across some more examples. For now, these grabs from a trip to Death Valley serve the purpose. I am intrigued by the repeated erosion forms - they repeat themselves at different scales (sizes). It is an example of natural processes generating fractal patterns. I like this.