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Got a digital camera this week, finally.

I've been busying myself with the task of documenting a bunch of my old work. This involves a pretty intensive set-up of clamp-lights, ladders, chairs, brackets, folded-tabs-of-paper, bulbs, cross-faded-sweeps and other unmentionable bullshit. I don't have it down quite perfect yet, but it's getting close.

For your viewing pleasure

Funny story about those drawings:

The first time I came to my current town, Athens, was for a print conference. This was back in '98. I wasn't sleeping much then and was sharing a hotel room with Mike, Amy (my undergraduate-grad-assistants) and a pre-relationship Melissa (who I'd be living and loving with 8 months later, much to both our surprise). One of my sleepless nights was spent in the parking lot of the hotel with a portfolio of about 12 of these huge drawings of indian-style-old-men-in-suits and a bag of clear, individually wrapped, hard candies that where bought for the long road trip to Ohio from Normal, Illinois.

Sick of all the arty pretense in the air, I managed the rip through most of the drawings. Each piece was about an inch square and weighed-down to the parking lot by a candy. Each candy grabbed light from the lot's overheads and cast down a colored shadow onto the drawing scraps. It was beautiful and it was only for me. I completed an area about the size of a blanket when the lady from the lobby informed me, in not so many words, to stop acting like a fucking lunatic 'cause I was scaring the other guests.

The ones here are what I had left (the heads where done later).

anyway,

-m