Portfolio: 2022

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Links to Other Projects

This is a link to a manuscript I wrote about a project I undertook shortly after moving to Thomasville, GA to recover the identity of an artist who was born in Boston, GA in the early part of the 20th Century.

https://jack-adams-book.blogspot.com/

This is a link to a 100 year old diary of Ruth Dorough, found on a garbage heap in Boston, GA.

http://genealogytrails.com/geo/franklin/diary_ruth_dorough.htm

This is a link to the blog I kept for The Boardwalk, a studio and art gallery I owned for three years with my wife, Lori, in Boston, GA.

https://theboardwalkart.blogspot.com/

Wheel of Time (2014-present)

Wheel of Time is a continuous scroll of paper on which I make vertical marks with ink. Over the years, I have used marker, India ink, and a variety of handmade inks from walnut, oak, lamp black, etc. It started as a one-mile long scroll. However, by the time I reached the end of one mile, the artwork had changed for me. Now I consider this to be a project that will continue for the rest of my life.

This image was taken in 2019, just after the scroll with marks (on right) was over one mile long.

I have since ended this scroll as Volume One 2014-2022. I am working on Volume Two.

Volume Two: I now have the scroll set up in my house.

This picture was taken in 2014 shortly after I started the project.

The location is The Boardwalk, a gallery I owned for three years with my wife in Boston, GA.

Wheel of Time (performance)

These images were taken during a performance art piece I did at the University of North Alabama (my undergrad alma mater) in late 2019. The performance was also entitled Wheel of Time. It was not a very successful performance piece, and I regret using the scroll as part of it. I like the pure, solitary performance of making the lines in my studio.

Here are a few other images from the performance. It was based on a kind of "spiritual charlatan" character using the act of drawing as a way of conjuring incantations.

Other Paintings

Nocturne, commissioned painting (2016)

Untitled, acrylic on paper (2016)

Double Duchamp (1998)

Compost Paintings (2 of 6), canvas fragments mounted on board (2008)

Puberty (2000)

Other Drawings (2014-2022)

Vase in the Window, pen and ink with watercolor accent

Hydrangea, pen and ink with watercolor

Self-portrait in Shadow, pen and ink with watercolor

Columbus Mills at Sunset, blue drawing ink with watercolor

Okra Pods, pen and ink with hand-printed acrylic texture

Sprouting Onion, graphite and white Conte crayon

Blue Potted Plant, brush and ink

Sand Piles in the Parking Lot, pen and ink

Right Hand on Table with Drawing Materials, brush and ink

Nursing Mother, breast milk and watercolor

This painting was made for a student who had given birth to her son during the previous semester.

She sat for the portrait and also gave me a container of her breast milk to paint with.

Queen of the Self-Checkout, charcoal, pastel, and watercolor

Friday, July 15, 2022

Documents of Fleeting Images (temporary mark-making)

Magnolia Drawings

Magnolia Poem

The following were temporary paintings made by pouring old paint into a kiddie pool to dry out.

This is Thomas Jefferson's first prototype for the first draw-and-copy apparatus that he invented.

Actually it's just several drawing instruments crudely taped to my hand.

This was a performance I did in collaboration with my colleague, Karl Barton.

He improvised on the flute and a accompanied the music with impromptu visuals.

Return to the Source (2017-2020)

For the past several years I have been making handmade inks and pigments from found materials. Below are some of my pigment studies, followed by paintings of the places where the raw materials were found using the pigment I made from them.