It's almost showtime!

It feels good to work your arse off and then see all of it hanging nice and tight on the stark white wall of a gallery.... and from the ceiling. Tomorrow night is gonna be RAD!

Thinkspace has a bunch of Sneak Peak pics up on their site. Go check those out!

Here's other random shots from setting up the show...

::abel

One Day to LA. and a new Print.

Well that time has come to pack my bags after a week of packing flurry and last minute mayhem. Not to mention a trek across the great white north to the other side of Lake Erie for a beautiful wedding at the Knox estate (Founder of the Albright Knox) for a very good friend and coincidentally my cousin and his wife Amber, some highly emotional grandma visitations, and an installation at the University of Michigan down in Ann Arbor including the opening. Now its back to the daily grind at the motors of general for about 6 more hours including a trip for my habitual monday burrito then finish packing personal wardrobe and supplies needed for this second week of travel, visitation and most importantly aesthetic happiness that some refer to as art.

Also wanted to give you a lil peek at what i will be bringing that will be available to the masses for consumption and making the walls more lively in whatever venue they choose be it offices, homes or fornification dens. Both colorways or of the limited kind one being more exclusive then the other. The thoery on this is heavily dependent on color and global warmings effects. Its pretty simple the warmer the rarer. Well i ll stop the babble and hopefully see the hordes of beautiful people that populate the left coast at the opening. DH IV

This show is kicking my arse!

Lame life truth: Everything takes longer than you think it will.

Super late nights, early mornings.... the end is near! Coffee is my god! I think the eye of the storm just past me yesterday so a little more wind and rain and I should be in the clear.... clean up the wreckage, photograph the remains and drive it all away... yaayyy!!!

Plan the work and work the plan.... until you screw something up and need to change everything around... technical difficulties seemed to have found their way to me, however, I think I like the new and improved design a lot better.

Here's some pics from the front lines...

Flat Earth's in progress:

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black is the new black, the globes get there final coat:



and last but not least, we should have named him Falcor!



::abel

Long Haul...

So the chainsaw thing turned out to be a longer process than expected... I now have some major respect for those log carvers, you know, those rednecks that turn logs into bears, eagles, owls, indians etc... that project will have to come to fruition for another show in the future... it turns out to be a good thing because i would never have been able to fit those along with everything else into my truck to bring down to LA... but the chainsaw was definitely good times.

on the way down to LA I drove through a killer little Southern Oregon thunderstorm complete with giant rainbow and crazy lightning, reminded me of a piece I did for the show...Here's the featured EVENTS page out of the the September Juxtapoz issue... pretty sweet!
For the last few days I've been finishing up some of the bigger sculpture pieces, my Dad has a big workshop with every machine and tool you could possibly imagine in it. So I'm letting my imagination run a little wild... ton-o-fun!


::abel