thanksgiving 2008

me-Erik expressing something such as how the sun is behind clouds and yet the dogs are running free with my eyes in mid-blink wearing my stylish new shirt - notice the lines are turned downward and inward towards the buttons

loons

8th grade, 1984 a common loon and an artic loon swim together in pen and ink 8"x10"

archietecture for marvin the martian

left over from other sculptures wooden pieces 9"x7"x6" 2000 it's a model for a 25th century house with a garden and a weather vane and it's ocean ready or it's a sculpture of a standing person with a bee buzzing around their head in their environment of bushes trees stumps rocks flags banners and a feather in their cap

it' a beautiful day

singleness

oneness in the world although you see I feel the apparation of another, I still don't know from whence it came. The large black swash is me and the strong red, yet almost not there, tiny yet still opaque red for love, as that is true sence of what she gives to me.

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an abstract-expressionism done 12 years ago 2010 meaning 1998 had recently entered college and my 1st class was with the painting professor who after having had his own bout with mental illness gave me a c- after having stretched and painted 5 - 4'x3' paintings to this I thought to myself I am never taking another class from you - you so called"professor" I didn't for the next 5 years - painting was my degree yet I painted at home which worked out for the best as I was able to freely move through my progressive styles and then after selling 12 to "real" professors" and 3 to the Tweed Museum of Art I took another class from this fool by this time my reputation proceeded me and I was able to paint at home I didn't paint one painting for his class all the paintings I turned in were painted in the previous 5 years while I attended UMD don't prejude your students you don't know, as they don't, what's in their future. After the class was over I painted over 3 and left 2, one is in my mom's living room and the second I gave to my brother

underwater city scape

etching in black and yellow the green is a combonation of the two values its name implies it all I've done 4 other copies of this and they were given to 4 of my family members

an experiment as to laying the canvas horizontally

the colors used are liquid with water being as much as 20:1 with paint was done in 1997 as I was preparing for the university when looked at close the white overlayed onto teal make a dramatic blend over the muted yellowish-orange background 48"x60"

my life as a sailboat

14"x21" collage: watercolor acrylic marker I am the cross on the sailboat - shallow water rocks and a dragon threaten my existance and yet my savior is the lighthouse - lights my safe passage 2000

of fire and ice

viking ship in lower fire in orange and ice in blue

natural style

board scanned in to computer wrapped in wires(picture hanging, copper, steel, etc.) colored using painter Mac.all the shapes, colors, blacks/lights, lines, 3-dimensionality are all helped using the computer - it's amazing what effects are made with a technologically advanced computer

elevator pipes

this is my only night shot I had to take 3 shots of , in order properly photograph, I take 1:1, always.It is a process of using your film speed, apperature, exposure and light meter. This place was so dark, I barely could see, through the lens I saw nothing. Basically, I took one for 3-1/2 min.,2-1/2 min., and finally1-1/2min. Simply, the 3 min. -overexposed, the 1-1/2 underexposed, but the 2-1/2 min. is the one you see here. Photography is the most cognitive of my arts, emotions are used minimumly, thought or the process, and then to repeat the process one way I have found to spice it up in to take night photographs.

Interstate fishing pier

2 story olde bridge original Duluth,MN/Superior,Wisc accended to top(railroad)or(car) took with part of Duluth in background - when I presented to photo class someone said," burn and dodge is the proper thing to do" instructor told them to walk up to it and take a closer look. -from where they were sitting the shadows and the corroded steel was too dark

Grain elevator with man

This grian elevator is going to be destroyed, the man is in charge of setting the charges to explode/implode this structure.

Grain elevators

looking from behind an elavator at a couple of silos and the black/white film picks up the lights and darks of the hard sufaces. reminds me of a lady with her blouse on, yet the tops of her breasts are expossed peeking out -beautiful

my love and that which makes me stronger

april-may 1987 the greatest & last (8th) painting at east high school shows who I am after (3) and what's to happen to me(3) - death then as the boxes (months) show times assimilation as(years) turn into decades layering turns to depth and the closest to you (the viewer) becomes line black white yellow and red along with the red yellow and teal background makes your eye have no rest the intended pourpose of the confused-chaotic energy and yet there is harmony in the music of the spheres 70"x56" the 1st is my whole head (grey) taking up the whole right side looking at a very small (seinior h.s.) photo of my original she is 1/3 of the way from the left and 1/3 from the top 2nd is me getting hit off my bike ( black) my head is impacting the ground and (seinor picture of her) my teeth are coming out of my mouth( bright blue) and her name is written in a almost ghostly yellow that seems to ebb and flow around my body 3rd is the modern crucifixion of me(of which will never happen-because I'll not allow it to-you see only I can determine what will occour in my life) she really appears as an apparition my bent over head being her right eye and her left eye attaches to my mid-body loosing my balance -momentarily - this has several intended pourposes 1st being to show of my powers - predicting head-injury and my comeback and subsequent deliverance of said predictions to my equal it's to prove to all - 25 years is like a blink of an eye in universal time - and when we are in flux - waiting for the one the power - you must have faith and believe - neigh - know that all your waiting will be as it is - journey to have faith and never give up your dreams - all this fron a 17 year old - and it proved to be 100% correct - who is this?

occurance

occurrance good/bad it's just that a happening to catagorize everything - foolish blue flowing - could be water right central "pipe" carries water (black) most obvious the arch or tunnel both flowing and opaque- male and female this shows my "new" style

woman

noone in particular my 2nd painting 12th grade just getting the feel of the paint viscosoty opaqueness tansparency what better way than to take an artistic photo and put my own (at the time) personal spin on it

riding my peregrination

2 1/2x1 1/2 wood glue staples paint polyurathene paint bending wood strips akin to most of my work I had no idea of the impact this 1st sculpture was in the beginning of aforesaid piece. levels are my grade school jr high and high school the off shoots on the top are when graduated. the pieces sticking up are my goals some I've achieved and some are ongoing and some I ruled out. From the under the graduating level there is a decending piece which goes nearly back to the beginning, my birth or my death, as they are both a humans largest trasitions. "Accident" I put it in quotations because it wasn't an accident, it was planned, and you;'d have to know me better to understand, in a nut shell earlier, before the incident occurred, I foresaw this "thing", which helped me to take a break and reevaluate my life. "My love and that which makes me stronger" was done 5 months before the "occourance" which is 5 peices back on this blog - unpourposeful becomes pourposeful.

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forest glen with 3 surfboards

acrylic watercolor on paper with knife scrapes 22"x30"
a woodsy scene with 3 surfboards and fireworks a purple cloud overhead wth an orange kangaroo jumping for joy by the bottom right corner and more stuff going on in the woods. Woods , that you obseve are not static places, they can be changed in the blink of an eye - by a storm, fire or by man's hand - they just appear static to fool you - all nature is "unrest in motion", appearing to be sleeping - or at peace. The appearantly immobile become animated. This work can be seen, with watercolors, at Duluth Grill on 27th ave west on the north wall

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a cut of morrison(george)

3 weeks to complete wood polyurathane truck spring wood/super glue metal lathe strips painted string painting wire brass wire and copper wire the main plane is arranged in pieces such as a george morrison montage(such is on the 4th floor of the mnpls. art institute) the action is the other pieces getting out of the way of the blade circular saw blade cutting into the main plane lathe strips and subsequent circulating wire is chaotic and yet under control of an unseen force - random abandon becomes organized chaos all set on a "truck spring" when origionally placed on this the sculpture leaned at 45 degree angle I added a 1" dowel inside so at first sight it looks as if the truck spring is carrying the whole sculpture

family shot taken w/ my 35mm canon

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ice coldness in duluth winter

true to what I had no idea of what this was of- until lindylee43 gave me the knowing - it is, coldness. in duluth mn.

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Dick and Dorothy : American Gothic by David Bradley

Two people in love, my "grandma and grandpa", on the shore in front of lake superior and of their personal church (House) wearing modern gitchi gummi, olde time clothing and appearing, much like their charges with a deep tan or brown skin - extremely environmental - as they were in life

our life paths finally as one

charcoal, acrylic paint and more deep dark rich charcoal 2007 life paths are the deep - solid charcoal lines look how they intertwine at times and seem in different atmospheres also notice how they first get a sence of one another - unlike anything (before or since) universal beauty oneness- And the large "green falic" looking object is acually that - mine, the yellow area that the falicies is entering into is her.

my 1st abstract-expresionism

in this it uses the new color of pink as well as teal , yellow and red it is an expieriment ? what could I do with this newly found media straight angles and then the organic shapes and the lay of the paint - there are 2 faces as well as piano key and the anchor is the green and yellow- where the colors almost blend from the center down on the left boarder Nov.1986 East high school 28"x22"

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