creating actors

creating actors

relying on my well used edition of USA, i decided to create the main characters that appear throughout the trilogy. dos passos interspersed these fictional characters with his stream of consciousness writing and headlines pulled from the time (1930s). i used mostly...
hallelujah

hallelujah

ripped from the story in USA: the 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos: pages content: two drifters on the move selling pamphlets and racy material to make a dime, traveling through america. U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. […] U.S.A. is the world’s greatest...
more stamps

more stamps

i made a series of children with stamp heads, randomly adding the stamps to the images. afterwards i think about the stamp and the message and what it might say, some surprise me. here i used old pages from a children’s reader, cancelled stamps and origami...
cactus for carol

cactus for carol

when carol asked me why i don’t draw cacti, i really couldn’t say much else than, i’m not really attracted to them as a source of inspiration, or something of that nature. well, since then shari has sent me an inspired cactus drawing and now i must...
building materials

building materials

using materials that were given to me by a friend, all from her father’s building of their house in paradise valley in the 1960s i built the bases of these collages. there were contracts, appliance books, specs, hand written notes, blue prints and invoices....