and a couple photos…

The weiner, the baloney, and the donut were left in a labeled paper bag in a freezer in Sacramento in the hopes that they would one day get eaten or otherwise become valuable.  Stand-ins are…here.

The head-sized/shaped object was ultimately traded away…here.

And the other object currently looks like this…here.  It got placed in Box #20…here.

]]> http://istilljustwant.com/2012/09/08/2002-my-first-crit/feed/ 0 istilljustwant crit1 crit2 crit3 crit4 http://istilljustwant.com/2012/09/08/2001-what-got-me-in/ http://istilljustwant.com/2012/09/08/2001-what-got-me-in/#comments Sat, 08 Sep 2012 11:56:38 +0000 istilljustwant http://istilljustwant.com/?p=4051 ]]> Late fall, 2001, in Sacramento, California, USA, I applied to the graduate program at the University of California at Davis.  I had a set of slides shot by Izzy Schwartz…

I was accepted to the program.

Half way through the program I combined the slides, all the actual pieces in the slides, and all the support materials that were part of the application packet into 1 artwork entitled, WHAT GOT ME IN…

Currently, they are in BOX #3…here.

BEHIND AHEAD; 2002 (late); approximately 1 month’s worth of what would have been trash; approx 5″x6″x11″

After a visit to my studio in 2003 Terry Winters sent me a drawing..he had very kindly asked me during the visit if I would sell him one of my pieces…I said ‘no’ but that he could have any piece of mine if he would send me a piece of his…he chose my piece above (on the right) and he sent me a drawing (here).

]]> http://istilljustwant.com/2012/09/04/a-trade/feed/ 1 istilljustwant behind ahead 2 http://istilljustwant.com/2012/08/31/2002-a-studio/ http://istilljustwant.com/2012/08/31/2002-a-studio/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:26:44 +0000 istilljustwant http://istilljustwant.com/?p=4029 ]]> 2002, art grads (10 of 16) studio building, University of California, USA…visible window locates the studio that was mine…

window, inside…

interior…

…started to sense that everything in the studio was part of one big artwork (installation), and that I would have to figure out how to control or not control it (hypercontrol vs chance became important), started relating individual artworks to other individual artworks and groupings of artworks and to furniture, tools, walls, stains, etc., dark and dank studio atmosphere encouraged feelings of claustrophobia which were released by daily long walks along a creek nearby, began to control my stuff by binding and arranging.

2002, fall, Basement Gallery, Art Department, University of California at Davis, California, USA, 1st term graduate school, group show including all 8 new art grad students.

A grouping, multiple artworks as one…not yet all artworks as one but an important step toward ISJWTBAM(SICDGTAHP)…

]]> http://istilljustwant.com/2012/08/31/grouping/feed/ 0 istilljustwant bg door only grouping 2 http://istilljustwant.com/2012/08/30/1998-studio/ http://istilljustwant.com/2012/08/30/1998-studio/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:50:25 +0000 istilljustwant http://istilljustwant.com/?p=4001 ]]>

1998, studio, Florida Room, Buchanan Road, San Carlos Park, Fort Myers, Florida, USA.

ISJWTBAM(SICDGTAHP) was not yet.

Illustration fully ditched, fine art fully committed to.

Intuitively making things while very consciously determining a definition of fine art.

Shift focus from 2-d to 3-d.

Shift from consumer to non-consumer.

Overwhelming feeling of being buried by my own crap…recognition dealing with my own crap would be critical somehow in my art.

Developing views/philosophy on teaching (taught 2 classes, basic design/drawing/painting, per semester at local community college from 1996-2000).

]]> http://istilljustwant.com/2012/08/30/1998-studio/feed/ 0 istilljustwant studio1998ftmyersfl http://istilljustwant.com/2012/08/23/look-but-dont-touch/ http://istilljustwant.com/2012/08/23/look-but-dont-touch/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:55:25 +0000 istilljustwant http://istilljustwant.com/?p=3973 ]]> At the end of the first year of grad school at UC Davis in the summer of 2003 I changed studios, from a dark dank smallish space to a largish airy skylit space.

It was at that point that I realized I was working on an all-encompassing on-going artwork…a box was no longer only a box, a single ‘finished’ artwork was no longer just that…it all was 1 artwork made of artworks made of artworks made of artworks.

I intuitively situated all my stuff into the new space and called it an installation.  I left it that way for 24 hours with the door wide open with a sign stating ‘look, but do not touch’.  As far as I know no one saw it.