Shapeshifter's Ink

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SOLD by Blue Turtle Gallery, La Grande

I used a detail from this image as the above header for Shapeshifters’ Ink.   
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I am not a very accomplished artist in drawing or painting, but I’ve found that even my lame attempts at painting provide a rich bounty of details which can be scanned and used for textures and brushstrokes. My art teacher would set up a still-life as an assignment and I’d keep painting over it again and again until it no longer resembled the “objects” thus defeating his ability to judge it in comparison with the still-life or the work of other students. If I frustrated my teacher, imagine how frustrated I was. Whenever I would show him something I drew and asked for technical help in making my “vision” stronger, he would direct me back to the still-life. Well, now there’s digital photography for that. If I need an apple, I will take a photo of one. If I need the steel structure of a bridge, I can do the still-life with camera. I still enjoy sketching with ink and hope to do more painting soon. 
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I have a quiet obsession with roots and limbs and twisting appendages of insects and living compost. Organic forms all entangled and interconnected. Expressive and free but not over-organized. So here we go again.
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An earlier exploration in a process I hope to pursue once I decide to become more deliberate in the construction of digital imagery. Right now, having a more vague notion of what something might look like is more compelling because of the element of surprise, the sense of breaking out of my own constrained notions of structure, texture, form and beyond what I’d imagined.
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My friend, Don Gray, had been exploring seashells in a number of his paintings and my own love of the Oregon coast compelled me to do a few images myself. The soft shells here have not as yet become my “melting clocks” but I see it coming.

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The Ministry of Whimsy is a very fine small press that published a marvelous range of fantastic literature including the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel, Troika, Stepan Chapman. Editor Jeff VanderMeer deserves recognition for his brave defiance of the commercial norm and the high standards he set for an alternative to NY. So I offer a little something whimsical in honor of his achievement — something for the lobby of his imagined publishing offices made possible by the huge financial success that should go along with MOW’s critical success. We can at least imagine it!
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Random Acts is the name of an underground black market fair in my novel, Primetime, so it’s an insider bit of information. The hitchhiking red thumb is the key, in what Paul DiFilippo referred to as a “glorious tangle.”

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This digital image was used as the cover art for my recent book of poetry, Giving It Away, published by Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC, March 2009, http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com

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