In contemporary critical art-speak circles, it’s quite fashionable to talk about whether an artist’s work is concept driven or process driven. Concept driven work refers to artists who start with an idea concerning meaning and everything else follows: design, medium, process, technique, etc are secondary. Process driven refers to artists whose work is led by…
The following is a reboot of a post from 2012 with a surprise new ending. I have this super vivid and fairly recent memory of writing the original post in a moment of nostalgia at the old Octane Coffee shop in my neighborhood and was shocked to discover that I’d written it just over 7…
Yesterday and this morning, after mentioning them to a friend, I got caught up in watching my two favorite videos online. Thought I’d share them with you before I let their inspiration take me away from the screen. May they brighten your day and send your creativity soaring…
Panels #1 & 2 on the left side of the Turtle Screen are utterly riveting (groan, yes, bad joke!)…meanwhile De planishes panel #3 of the right side, and Uduak meticulously wraps the twined S hooks for the other #superyacht commission. What you thought the turtles were enough work for the 3 of us?!? Just wait…
These Eastern repousse panels are designed to function as sliding pocket doors to cover a large media screen on board the 69 meter super yacht, Samaya. In the original sample I was commissioned to create in 2016, I translated the client’s and the interior design company’s vision of sea turtles, which were inspired by aboriginal…
My studio assistant, Deanna Pastel planishes each individual dome on the Turtle Screens
