Madness Before Method

This has been a busy month. I've been preparing for my shows, creating hype and worrying about nobody showing up. Most recently I have been shooting for project code name Super Ego, and am still looking for models who wish to participate (see call for models [kinda] post below). I don't even remember the last time I took this many portraits. Currently on a break from the cool surrealist kind of stuff, but really that just means I'm itching to make some more pretty soon. Now that the weather is warming up, I will hopefully get around to making more World of One pieces. Not really sure if I'm going to keep it exclusively to myself or if I'm going to get other people in on it. Guess I'll just have to try both and see what happens.

Until then, here's a triptych I took the morning I shot the fanale for my Senbazuru series. It was the last snow storm of the season, and also promptly made me sick for the entirety of the following week. Also, I'm currently looking for people who want to join my art crew (collective). We will need:

1 graphic designer
1 sculptor
1 painter
1 print maker

and lots of booze and time to get together and share ideas for cool stuff we can make. Basically I'm trying to start a crew so we can share skills and make cooler artwork happen. Anybody wanna print some T-shirts for me??? Hollaaaaa!

Arrested Motions

Funny how free time works. When you don't have any of it, it's awesome. But when you have a lot, it is no longer free, it just becomes time. When I was folding my 1000 cranes, I would take breaks from the monotonous folding process to make unique "designer cranes" like these. Each one featured a unique design, and are one of a kind. In order to make each crane as precise and clean as possible, I would constantly unfold and refold cranes to make sure the designs I drew fit each crane perfectly.

I found this process both comforting and refreshing, like a shaved ice stand in the middle of the desert that was the long painful process of folding 1000 uniformed cranes. Unlike the uniformed white ones, these were actually kind of fun to do. I would have no idea how each one would actually turn out until it was put together in the end. Consiquentially there are a lot of terrible ones too which I have yet to get around to photographing. I found that In this fashion I was able to try out all these different ideas in a very short period of time. Since finishing the 1000 though, I have stopped making these unique cranes which I kind of miss, but I have been taking a lot more pictures too.

When I was folding my 1000 I often dreamed about all the different projects I wanted to do but didn't have time to because I had to fold white cranes instead. When I finally finished however, what I found was this gigantic vacuum of free time that I had no idea what to do with. Things are starting to pick up now though, I've spent most of the last 2-3 months since I finished to actually promote the work for once and it seems to be finally paying off. This month I will be featured in a group show and a solo show (mostly because I can) . Peep the flyers for both shows below.

For the Love

I was on vacation in Hawaii for the last few weeks visiting my crewmate Kevin. This is Kevin. Every year at our crew reunion we consistently vote him "most likely to die first." This is why. This picture is every bit as dangerous as it looks, if he were to fall off to either side certain death would await for him there. But for the sake of keeping florox tradition alive, Kevin took it upon himself to perform what can only be described as hands down the most dangerous florox pose ever (yes, this is our crew pose). In the words of one of my favorite artists David Choe "They don't make guys like that anymore. Maybe they never did."

Also, Kevin. There were like no ropes on that mountain, and those were not stairs.