mononivores rejects (clean out)

A few months back, i put up my show about corn called "The Mononivores", and had a handful of rejects that didn't end up making the cut for the show, and thus, won't be on my website...

figured i would post a few here....

prognosis negative

turns out i don't have gal bladder sludge, infact the doctor called me today to tell me all of my tests came back 100% healthy. looks like this guy is going uninsured for the next 3 months. i'll just hold on to the bengay.

i'm in NYC for the week. Melissa and I are waiting to hear from a friend for lunch. thought i'd take this time to post some pictures from the mononivore show for everyone who couldn't make it...

a couple of low quality gallery views...





all images are silk screen and india ink on gessoed paper. each panel is 18x24 to give you an idea of the scale....

salmon/corn installation

As if this week wasn't big and busy enough, I also installed a sculpture i've been working on for the last few months at the Hull House in chicago this week. If you're not familiar with the hull house, they are a group created by Jane Addams to give social services, education, and support to chicago citizens, especially youth. One of their big initiatives is a new program teaching about sustainable eating, including an urban farm on the UIC campus and a weekly free soup event with guest chefs coming in to talk about these sort of topics. In short, it's a great place and I'm honored and extremely pleased to be able to install here.

About the piece. It's titled "Salmon! Now eating corn and loving it." and is a response to the extremely mind blowing facts that farm raised salmon are now being bred to eat a heavily grain diet, and in doing so are loosing their omega 3s and have become the most highly medicated live stock.

The piece is going to be up for a week, and i'm planning to try and photograph it everyday and post here to hopefully get some interesting evidence of it's returning to the earth via animal eating

check back to see what happens...

a perfect crisp waffle potato

too much to do. finished printing the show posters after several mishaps. i need new inks. drew more corn. drilled some holes in a historical building.

almost done. show goes up friday... well see how i feel about it then...

shit's getting ridiculous

Yeah. Thats a ladder i have to use to draw the last piece in the "mononivore" series. It's 8 feet tall. shits ridiculous. oh, and you can see the salmon in the background.

Either way, it's almost done and i'm really excited. I also got the go ahead today that i will be hanging the ENTIRE series at once at the University of Illinois Chicago the last week of april (27-1). It's EASILY the most ambitious effort i have ever under taken, and i hope some people will come by to check it out. I'll post more info when i get it. for now, i need to put some fancy cheese on some fancy meat.

paper buildings

worked all day on finishing my corn installation. turns out fishing line is capable of slicing thru your skin... or i was pulling it that tight. either way, i have several cuts on my hands, which hurts. either way hopefully it goes well enough that i can hang it on location.

i bought almost 80 square feet of canvas today, and it is supposed to only be for 2 pieces. that's ridiculous. otherwise worked on a bunch of smaller ideas tonight that i'm pretty happy about... hopefully all of this experimenting is gonna cause for some great stuff for denver. i really need to start working on that....