some of the norman prints

this is the collagraph plate for the "sleeve mandala" print. the plate is an arrangement of coffee sleeves with a central coffee cup lid, which is from my mocha i drank before the printing day.

a screenprint of an image of a portion of the norman piece.
the sleeve mandala print.
this is the printing plate for the norman print.

these are my new t-shirts, printed with glow in the dark ink.


I spent all day today printing in the ou printshop. I began the day making a collagraph plate of collaged coffee sleeves and the lid from my mocha. I worked on another layered collage screen print, and further explorations of printing directly from the inked panel of sticks. I worked so late i actually did not get a chance to take pictures of all the prints before i packed them for return shipping. So concludes my norman stop of the tour, next up I will see you in memphis.

The norman piece opening the norman prints being made today and tomorrow

i started bt making some coffee cup sleeve collagraphs, but later moved into screenprints and stir stick prints.

Today I ducked into the amazing ou printshop to work on some prints and ephemera related to the norman piece. i started messing with making a suite of norman prints. I played around with inking up a small woven section of sticks.cant thank curtis jones the amazing printmaker and jared the super print assistant for their help in facilitating the printing madness.

so i created a woven stir stick printing plate inked it and ran it through the press. I will be re-investigating this process a little bit more before i leave norman.

of course it wouldntbe the same without a few of these.







the view through the cheese cubes.

norman day 8 and 9 feelin fine

Well I finished working on the norman piece this morning. I spent the day working on and then giving my artist talk, and just sort of hanging out around the ou art building. Tomorrow I am going to try and get in the print shop and pull some prints before the opening. I still need to clean up the debris and try and get a good nights sleep before tomorrow but otherwise things are well. I think one of the biggest things I found out with the norman piece is that it felt like I had taken what I made for the city gallery piece and split it in half. Where the past three stir stick installations had central forms that defined them, the norman piece feels more like a return to my interest in defining space the way the redux piece did in 2006. I also discovered the joy pf creating the intersecting planes that appear on one end of the piece. The intersecting planes felt a bit like I was finally letting out my inner maya lin. I will try my best to get some action shots during the opening tomorrow night, and look forward to getting some time back in the studio at home before heading off to The University of Memphis for the next stop on the tour.

norman day 7

the end of day seven, until eight.

norman day 6

managedto get




i am taking the evening off to go see matt&kim, in concert...until tomorrow.

day five of norman

so today is the day that I began to turn a corner with the form. I should be finished with the mechanical lift tomorrow morning and moving on to ladder and ground work from here on out.
one the best features of the lightwell is the ability for me to step way back from the work and begin to see the whole gesture and overall composition of the piece, something that is a rare a opportunity.




this is tomorrows first priority, bridging this corner and beginning to shape this edge, hopefully i can get these two points to meet without any major incidents.