Shots from the Delta of Venus show

It's been quite a while since I've updated this thing. Hopefully people haven't forgotten about it. I haven't been doing too much collaging, lately. I had a pretty busy/lazy summer and didn't get much done and have been living in Morocco for the last few months. I'm going to school there in a small town between Fes and Meknes and won't be back in the States until late spring. It's fairly difficult finding a steady stream of used books and other necessary collaging supplies, so I have managed to continue to maintain my state of relative inactivity in this arena, but am trying hard to resolve it. There is one nearly finished piece waiting to be completed, back home. Possibly, the most sacrilegious one yet, but it will have to keep waiting until I get back.
All that aside, the collage showing at the Delta of Venus in Davis this summer went well. I had plenty of positve feedback from it, though didn't manage to sell any of them. I suppose that would be my own fault for not pricing them, but, nonetheless, it went well. As you can see, above are some long overdue pictures of the show. My collages are mixed amongst the works of the other artists there, but are easy to spot as they are the ones precariously mounted on whatever flat surfaces I could find.
In other news, in spite of being on another continent, I have recently agreed to have "the Future is a Machine..." raffled off at the Gearhead Records 1 year anniversary show in Woodland, Ca. Gearhead is a punk rock record label that has been around for about 8 years now, possibly most well known for putting out such bands as, the Hives, the Hellacopters, New Bomb Turks, the Rock N Roll Soldiers and Riverboat Gamblers, but has plenty of other great bands worth checking out as well. They have also opened up their first record store in the fine city of Woodland about a year ago, which is what the festival was celebrating. Unfortunately the festival already passed (Nov. 8th) and I apologize for not informing people sooner, but if you are a resident of the greater Sacramento area and are tired of the lack of good punk record stores, I strongly recommend stopping by the store sometime. The people are friendly and helpful and the shop could always use your support to keep running. As if supporting Gearhead, itself, wasn't already reason enough for the donation of my collage, all the benefits from the auction went to the Woodland Sexual and Domestic Violence Center . Certainly a worthy cause.

My First Art Show!

It's been a couple weeks since I last posted anything here. I'll try not to let that happen too much, so as not to let the blog stagnate. However, I do have a good reason for my absence and it is because I have been busy. "Busy with what?" you may ask. Well, I have been busy with many things, but in particular I have been getting ready for my first showing. That's right, a bunch of my collages are up on display for the internet free public to observe. They are up on display at a local restaurant called the Delta of Venus , which has always been supportive art and music in Davis. Along with my collages, there also collages by a couple artists from Santa Cruz, whose names I cannot remember, and another local collager named Pxl. They will be up for about a month, so if you are around Davis, California within the next month, I recommend you stop by the Delta and take a look and if you make it there in the morning, definitely order a breakfast there. I've found that the best cure for a hangover is vomiting, biking in the rain in a t-shirt and getting a Delta of Venus breakfast. It works everytime. We may also be hosting some sort of dance party near the end of the showing. I'll post more info on that, later, along with some pictures of the showing.
As for my portion of the showing, I have put seven of my collages up there (Infanticide, EXTERMINATIONTHRUPROCREATION, the Brutal Death art, CEREBRALCIRCUMCISIONINCISION, UC Daeefus, Do Cavemen Dream of Electric Sheep? and the Future is a Machine). With the exception of "the Future is a Machine" and the Brutal Death artwork, they are all for sale at negotiable prices. I put a lot of effort into mounting them in the most precarious fashions possible. I acquired various cutting boards, paintings, clipboards and planks, which I have painted over and glued my collages on top. Since the collages are themselves made precariously on the backs of cardboard boxes, getting oll of them to stay flat was a challenge, with any amount of glue. For the few that I couldn't get to stay flat, I utilized the help of a staplegun, so the collages are not all in mint form anymore, but I personally like the touch the staples add to them.