Fun With Blenders

Fun With Blenders

“Fun with Blenders” is an outgrowth of an earlier series, “ Snapshooter”, both addressing how the work of becoming fully human is an unknowable process. The original idea was to use ink fantasies to describe how hereditary and embedded belief systems might predict future behavior patterns. My “Encyclopedia of Hats'” series addresses a similar issue.  I’m interested in how we get from our childhood selves to become grown adults. 

For my aesthetic inspiration, I’m fascinated with mid century modern anatomical illustration and lowbrow art.  I use techniques and methods borrowed from anatomists such as Frederick Henry Gerrish, Leo Testut and Carl Toldt. Lowbrow art characteristics including nonsensical physics, twisted anatomy and impish humor by artists such as Victor Moscoso can also be found in my work.  

“Fun With Blenders” focuses on the mysteries of change and transformation, the permutations and brambles of process that eventually lead to meaning and resolution.  What we see is the consequence of processes we really can’t understand. The work separates the product of transformation from the mystery of process. Becoming one thing to the next  is mostly comical. My inky fun packs of wacky plumbing and troubling anatomy blend up elements we think we know to render results we never expected.