Organitecture
Drawing--and especially drawing and mixed media on up-cycled wood from my dual life as a carpenter/construction guy/designer--has been a critical part of my process and output for the last 20 years. I began working in the trades, really, when I was a little kid. I was forever getting into whatever tools I could find and putting together legos, tree-houses, what my mom would call "Indian Villages" when we would go camping--little arrangements of sticks, pebbles, moss, pinecones that would produce a little model village of happy tents and fire-rings....both my Grandfathers were working men, and I inherited Pop's tools when he passed...
"Building" is inextricable from "Art".
All material human production is tied to all other.
What I am really interested in, is where the life-force--the urge to order and input, arrange and sculpt and create--comes from. What it is. What it wants me to do with it, or vice versa.
What is the drive to life? If entropy is the movement from organized system to disorganized randomness, what the heck do you call whatever it is that put (and continually puts) all that "order" or "organization" in there to begin with?
Ah.
The important thing is to enjoy the ride.
