A Flashback to Korea

been thinking a lot lately about how much fun i had in korea with clementine, chang, aram, jayeon, young-shin, jin-young, moo, and spencer. trying to reflect a bit and see where my experiences might take me now and what was truly significant about my trip.












now i just have to figure out how to get back there... "home, sweet home"

poofin out!

so its been a while, been so bogged down with work, heres a few pics of the show and some new work in progress!

ive been working on the creation myth of poof and the peni as well as a performance peice. still working things out for the performance, will record and post the final product.

Korea Bitches

sorry i havent been keeping up with posting. everything has been moving super fast here in korea. i leave on tuesday. here is a short snippet of things ive been doing.

Drawings n Such - Older Works

Here are sum images of drawings i did over the last few years.

KOREA!

well i leave for korea this coming monday, and im so excited! i get to see chang and clementineand do sum MAY-JAH shopping!

still working on learning a bit more korean, and i found a new song to help. heres Wheesung's cover of Craig David's Insomnia.

the good, bad, and slightly awkward...

its been a long week. lots has happened. boy problems i guess. they all seem to be leaving in one way or another. but on an awesome note, if you happen to visit MICA's school website, www.mica.edu, my football is on the mica front-page ^_^.

im so excited. they said it was untitled but... i submitted a title for it lol. anyway. im excited to be getting a little bit of coverage. its nice to see my hard work slowly paying off.

st.james and bolton hill in general just seem to be emptying out. everyone is leaving. its kind of lonely now. im sad to see all my senior friends leaving, and all my other friends leaving for the summer or going back to their respective countries. its been such a pleasure living with all of these people and im sad that the living situation is changing. it seems as ive grown through school and ive grown, ive become more attached to the way i live and who im interacting with. its sad to see and realize that relationships come to a close.

womp womp womp.

U_U

Summer

It feels good not really having too much to do. Well i have a lot to do, but it feels good getting it done on my own schedule. i go to work study, get lunch, more work study, paint and glitter, play video games and i get to chill with friends more. its a nice relaxing break after a long semester. Im getting super amped for my Korea trip and theres only a month left till i get to leave. ive been trying to get a lot done for my show before i go. i will post some new work soon.

everything is going so quickly!

ahhh!

^_^'

POOF! - Mini Installation

All of my my recent creations have been based off of a series of illustrations I have been doing. The characters in the illustrations are the same ones i have tried to visually pull into our reality.

They represent a merging of Japanese Superflat, it's Yaoi subculture, and american ideals of masculinity.

My recent body of work, POOF!, aims to explore the focus on the masculine in our society. It both drives and destroys. POOF! aims to represent the escape from masculinity. My forms transform as they transcend masculinity. To be masculine is to be of the male sex or gender. Starting as Peni they are so consumed with their masculinity that they embody the penis. As they transcend and accept feminine traits their bodies escape the constraints of their masculine boundaries. Until they reach their perfect forms, as fully developed humans they appear as forms without body parts. This is intended to show them as weak, defenseless, and vulnerable. This is how the world sees the emasculated man and how they view themselves. As they fully develop they regain their limbs and parts as a represent their full transcendence from the views of gender roles and stereotypes. They flaunt their feminine traits and exhibit confidence.

Football Fetish

In an effort to stimulate more conversation about not only my own artwork, but in ceramic arts in general i have created this blog. I hope to use this blog as a mode of critique for my own and other artwork. It is a collection of visual and verbal imagery I find stimulating.

As an introduction to my work here is a short compilation of my past work as a prelude to I have experienced in my work and the direction it is taking.

In fall 2008 I started a series of boys in David East's ceramic Surfaces class. I attempt to build romantic figures, all young men, highly decorated with china paints, glazes, and luster. Here I wanted to question the masculine by overwhelming it with the feminine. I think I took things too far. The figures are small, and are overwhelmed by the large wall space they would be placed in as well as by the surface treatment. I am interested now in the way the forms interact with the wall and with each other.

The series of footballs was made fall 2008 in Adelaide Paul's Ubiquitous Object ceramic class. I was sitting on a balcony. drinking a 40 and smoking a cigarette with a fellow queer and a straight man. the heterosexual stated, " I feel like the only man out here.", and I thought to myself about what is masculine, and what makes a man. I looked at myself and pondered what is more manly than drinking a colt 45 and smoking a fag with all your bros under the light of a full moon and a light fall rain?

yea... U_U so...

I became obsessed. I look for objects and symbols of masculinity and how I can bring my questions to my viewers. I thought of my materials(clay, glaze, and latex) and how they could aid in questioning the validity of masculinity.

As I look upon them now I notice its relations to ceramic art history and the history of porcelain. I realized the vocabulary was similar to that of faberge eggs. Does the decal imagery even need to be there? Does the porcelain question the masculinity enough through its relation to china painting, its delicacy, and its relation to craft?