Evolution

This project serves as a reminder that we are all just furless apes with amazing cognitive capacities whose tails fell off.

Using hydroflouric acid, I etched a frosted evolutionary progression into 25 pieces of glass; starting with the face of a chimpanzee, they slowly morph piece by piece until it becomes my face.  Because of the subtlety in glass etches and the length of the installation, this work is meant to be experienced in person... the internet just can't do it justice.

25 Glass Etches, Screen Print

Setting up this 'bad-ass' assignment.

MONKEYS

The 'Do It Yourself' Guide to Understanding Harper Policy. Complete!

  The entire series of my DIY guides are finally written, printed, bound, and posted online at www.DIYharperpolicy.com

20 copies, 5 of each volume.
Screen Print
Text can be read here: www.DIYharperpolicy.com

Other pieces in the series include invitations to join in on the party politics, and "I'm NOT with stupid" Tshirts.

20 Invitations - Screen Print on various Japanese Paper     

5 Tshirts - Screen Print

False Idols

     For my final assignment in abstract painting I had to create a small sculpture and paint it in an imagined landscape.  My sculpture was a cross made out of a broken guitar; crucified on it was a person with a barcode face and a bieber hair cut.  The painting is a surreal seascape with a small island, on it is this guitar cross with a faceless dude rocking a bieber hair cut, and surrounding him is warped images of pop culture floating in space.

 "False Idols"
Oil paint, acrylic paint, spray paint, cardboard, rag paper, bar codes, broken liquor bottles, and scrap clothing.
60 x 40 inches.

 Barcode face with Justin Bieber's hair.

 #WINNING, Snookie, 

Steve Jobs with an iPad, Rebecca Black, 

Paris Hilton, Charlie Sheen.

Original Sculpture.

My Abstract Map Painting

This was my second project in Abstract Painting, and the assignment was to abstract the experience of a trip from point A to point B.  This is my car ride between York University and Pickering on the 401 in the evening.

 "401"
Acrylic, spray paint, scrap paper, scrap canvas, and aluminium tape on canvas
60 x42 inches

These are details of the painting:

 I tried to represent the aggressive dissociation of my environment that I feel while driving on large slabs of concrete; the 401 always seems to have some new development along it, large concrete and metal structures, and it is this constructive nature that juxtaposes the organic environment that should exist.  This painting is my 'aggressive dissociation'.

Bob Marley

It's been a work in progress for over two years now, but my Bob Marley oil portrait is finally finished.  I started it during the York strike in my first year, and took my sweet time working on it, but am happy to say its signed and everything.

"Bob"

40 x 30 inches

 Oil on Canvas

 
Over the past couple years I managed to take a couple photos of the progress, so here they are, enjoy!

 November 2008                December 2008

June 2009                               May 2010

The dreads provide a wicked tactile experience.