Bit o' ancient history.

Some older stuff that I still feel is somewhat worthy of posting. Thought I'd get it all out in one. Everything here is at least a year or older.

Just a coupla paintings and studies.

"Venus" - small ceramic piece exploring contradictions in the concepts of femininity/beauty.

"Looming" - commentary on the state of the political/economic climate (this was made in 2007) and the inevitable and imminent seeping disaster that was being ignored/covered up. Kind of wish I'd done a better job of ending the tulle than leaving the edge intact.

This went one of two somewhat related ways. My original intent was a blatantly explicit expression of sexuality to confront society's tendency to cover it up. But I have also played with the idea of "Svidrigalov's Nightmare" (from Crime and Punishment), and while I'll probably sometime do a more comprehensive work or body of work on that, it also kind of works with that, because the subject looks very young and the image is very dark and assertive. But I think it leans towards the original idea, because my intent was not to depict this as "wrong" or twisted but rather embrace the sexuality it presents.

"Innuend-OH!" This came out of an argument over the definition of pornography. The other person insisted that pornography is any depiction of a penis entering a vagina (or any other form of penetration), while I argued that what makes something porn is the intent of sexual arousal and stimulation. To prove my point, I made an abstract sculpture of the head of a penis penetrating what is supposed to be the vaginal opening. Because the explicit nature was purposed for art and argument, not arousal, it is not a pornographic piece. Thus, I win. =]

If I find any more older works I still like, I'll post them. But I'm pretty sure this is the bulk of 'em.