Kerry James Marshall

It was a real uplifting feeling reading about the painting, “Past Times” by Kerry James Marshall, selling for all of that money.  Not because of the money but because the valuation of the work of a person of color – a black man.  It’s good to hear good stories about black people.  It’s good, as an aspiring #artist myself, to hear good stories about black artist too.  Thank you for doing your work, Mr. Marshall.

The Journey

A goal is starting to take shape – there is a destination.  I’m that kind of person, I thrive on seizing objectives.  Does that sound a little Army like?  Yeah, I guess that’s what you get when you spend most of your adult life as soldier.  Thus I display snippets of a past life here again today.  But that’s neither here nor there, the point is there is a goal – things are starting to take focus.  And I realize it is a two pronged approach that I’m after.  To begin with, I have to breathe some life back into TEAM TEN Tops & Tees and get that to bring in the initial funding for the photo project.  The project is another iteration of the Objectivity Project and I think it’s going to be a compelling body of work.

Yes, the journey is all too important but I really need to know where I’m going to begin with.  Truth be told, I feel better now – I have target.

8:30am, Breakfast, Jan 23, 2004 in Iraq.  We were at our halfway point where we spent the night.

 9:00am, Preparing before we hit the road.

 3:00pm, Our destination – the team we were changing out at the 3^rd ACR’s forward operating base.

6:00pm, Dinner, before we closed out the day on another journey in Army boots.

44th Annual Student Art Exhibition

Well, the 44^th Annual Student Art Exhibition at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA), located on the campus of the California State University, San Bernardino, is gone forever.  There will be a 45^th but that will be for current students and I am now an alumni.  But I did manage to capture a portion of the exhibition – my stuff.  This was a tough juror too, she (AprilGreiman) rejected a lot of work.  I had tried to enter one standalone photographic print and a polyptych of ten prints from my photography.  Then I also entered two different printmaking prints.  One was a woodcut print and the other was an etching print.  None of them pleased the juror except three of the largest images of my ten piece polyptych.  So it became a triptych.  Well, at least I got something in the show, that was a plus in my book.  Enjoy.

Library in Fontana

I have blogged about the library in Fontana before.  It was when I was waiting for it to open with my kids.  You can see that here.  A couple of weeks after that (February 4^th, 2011) I went back to drop off some books and decided to photograph the library.  This is what I did with my Canon PowerShot S5 IS.  This was kind of a line and texture exploration.  The building design and the layout of the grounds around the library are very creative.  I like it.  The library itself is very good too.