Boxing Jennifer is a painting I made for Jennifer Lynch (the director of Boxing Helena), who I’ve always been fond of. She has turned her life around recently, having just completed a new film called Surveillance which debuted at Cannes this year. Awesome! We showed our paintings together years ago in the Hollywood Zappa gallery [...]
Tagged lynchThere’s a particularly interesting, if skeptical blog about the origin of tarot cards here. Very objective in his stance, the writer is only interested in factual sources and is determined to cut through speculative occult theories to find out what the origins of the deck may be. Well researched, clearly written material. He clearly wishes [...]
Still feeling pretty crummy this morning, enough to skip yoga and running, but I went to class and had the pleasant experience of teaching a bright and wide awake group of students life painting and drawing. I managed to find a little painting time for myself to continue working on the Sun card, laying down [...]
Being involved in the tree project made me realize that I’ve never posted any of my photos of sets, so I’ve put together a page of pictures from a few past projects here.
While working on painting the cards, I’ve also been researching and writing about them as I create the images. I’ve had my Marseilles deck since I was a teenager in school, fascinated by the mysterious pictures that emerged from the brightly coloured cardboard covering, but not prepared for the amount of study it takes to [...]
My tree is almost complete, with her spirals covered by hundreds of little lights glowing under the fabric that wraps the metal structure, concealing the fact that this is made from steel pipe. She’s not fully lit in this image, which shows her heart area glowing while the rest of her waits. There are some really good [...]
Bert Green made it to the studio for a very pleasant afternoon – the first time I’ve seen him in far too long. Last time I saw him I had short hair! He enjoyed seeing “As the Crow Flies” and wants to show it and some sculpture pieces in his gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. [...]
Tagged bert greenLast night Lukas and I were arriving at the theatre when he received a call from his brother letting him know that his father had just passed away – he’s obviously got a million things running through his mind right now, poor fellow, taking him out of the picture. So this has been an intense couple of [...]
I drove to Santa Barbara this afternoon to bring the fabric to the tree and visit with Lukas for a while in order to figure out any issues that we might have with the tree, but there really aren’t any giant problems with it so far. I decided to turn the spirals downward because they [...]
Aren’t these lovely! Latest photo courtesy of Lukas in Santa Barbara where he’s working hard to build the tree. The spirals go onto the ends of the branches, vertically. I’m looking forward to seeing the small pieces go onto the branches at intervals as well. I plan on exhibiting the tree at the Simi [...]
