LA based group UFO take on the Integratron

The Integratron's Magnetic Fields from Jauretsi and Crystal on Nowness.com.

This couldn't be more Southern CA. It actually reminds me a lot of my time in New Mexico working for the artist Charles Ross', specifically the Light Sanctuary.

The Integratron is an acoustically perfect tabernacle and energy machine sited on a powerful geomagnetic vortex in the magical Mojave Desert.

Found in Print

 Recently raided Neil's [of Stormy Monday] library. Rich. 

Katachi, Japanese Pattern and Design, Weixenfld and Nicolson.

Luis Barragan: His House

Josef Albers, Bergfahrt Tamazunchale, Jacala, Mexico, 1935.

Corrugated Cardboard Material Study. Bauhaus Vorkurs. Josef Albers: To Open Eyes, the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale, Horowitz and Danilowitz.

Mikhail Matiushin. A Guide to Color: Rules of the Variability of Color Combinations. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934, Margit Rowell and Deborah Wye.

Space Modulator Experiment, Moholy-Nagy, 1936. Albers and Moholy-Nagy From Bauhaus to the New World.

Industriellandshaft, 1967, Hannah Hoch. The Photomontages of Hannah Hoch, Boswell and Makela Walker Art Center.

Lucy T. Pettiway quilt. Ge'ez Bend, the Architecture of the Quilt.

Goatherd (Ziegenhirt), woodcut, 1918. Ernest Ludwig Kirchner. German Expressionism, the Graphic Impulse, Moma.

Bruno Munari

'Copying nature' is one thing and understanding nature is another. Copying nature can be simply a form of manual dexterity that does not help us to understand, for it shows us things just as we are accustomed to seeing them. But studying the structures of nature, observing the evolution of forms, can give everyone a better understanding of the world we live in.

- Design as Art, Bruno Munari

Summer 32

Neil's Living Room. 1/32

Monster #1. 2/32

Space Fish. 3/32

I have been a little behind on these, but things have been busy basking in the sun and traffic. All ink on paper as usual. You can follow us on Instagram(@killscrow) to see these photos as they come...

My First Loom

I know it looks like a kid's toy, but it's perfect- the 10" Cricket Rigid Heddle Loom. My weaving teacher Lou Grantham was gracious enough to show me the warping process at her gorgeous Oakland home this past weekend. Once again, anyone in the Bay area interested in fibers needs to get to know Lou at SF Fiber. In addition to being a talented artist, she will make anything possible for you. 

Meet Neil at Stormy Monday

 The lovely and talented Neil Clemmons Harrison has been up to some exciting mischief in the launch of Stormy Monday Goods- redesigning reclaimed skateboards, a line of surfboards, hand shaped cutting boards and this is definitely just the beginning. Neil has a creativity that is magnetic and we look forward to sitting down with him soon for Artist Feature IV. Check out what's for sale at LA's Shelter Half. 

Working smaller for the summer

I've moved many times in the last 5 years, which is why drawing continues to be the most viable medium for me. All I need is a flat surface. For the summer down south I am committing to creating a collection of 32 drawings, each on 5"x7" pieces of Rives BFK. It works out to be about 1 drawing for every 1.6 days- a nice pace to keep my hands moving.  

Rediscovering Our Wasteland

Bernd & Hilla Becher.

Bernd & Hilla Becher

Bernd & Hilla Becher.

 We will be spending the greater part of the summer in Southern CA, away from our current home on the Northern coast of the state. I have come and gone from my original home of Orange County a number of times now, and each time I challenge myself to sort of rediscover a part of this place, which I consider to be a complete wasteland. I suppose this word wasteland carries a stigma at first, defined by words like barren, bleak and ravaged. These descriptions are all true of where I grew up, all in the form of waaaaay too many cars, waaaay too many people and a very dark disregard for a lot of natural things in general. But it is ours and these are my people! Over time I have found a certain beauty and character within this truth about where I was born and can't help but turn to a few sources of inspiration in exploring it all over again, namely the photos of Bernd and Hilla Becher, the land database from the incredible Culver City based Center for Land Use Interpretation and the writings of one of my favorite females Lucy Lippard.       

CLUI photo by Steve Rowell.

Port of Los Angeles. CLUI photo.

 Excerpt from Lucy Lippard's The Lure of the Local:

Unlike the deep identification with place or the need to keep moving is the kind of placelessness engendered by sheer indifference, which has reached such a point in this country that there are teenagers whose daily routes run from home to school to mall to television. They have never climbed the hill immediately behind their town, and there are children who have never gone the few miles from their homes to the sea.

If you would find yourself, look to the land you came from and to which you go.

                                 -Henry David Thoreau

                                                                      

New Favorite Wood

Veneered panel.

 I recently took a Compound Curve Lamination class at Brian Newell's shop and discovered the amazing Japanese Bog Cedar. Beautiful!- D.