This software is so slow and cumbersome that I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, as I'm very busy getting ready for my show.  However, I will add some photos sans text of some of my recent work, which is in a new direction from that of the fall semester.

OK - so I'm incapable of not adding text ;-)

The above is Bin for Sol LeWitt, done for an assignment in my studio class to produce an homage piece.

This work is Conflation, and it is perhaps the most satisfying piece I have done to date.  It is fairly large, at 24" wide. 36" long and 30" high.  It was a slow creation, spanning from late December to early February.  The tipple bit was built after a photo by the Bechers, but when complete I discovered that it just didn't satisfy me as the photo did.  After much pondering, I decided to interweave a grain elevator, the other iconic industrial structure type that I had been working with.

No doubt inspired by the open elevator framing of Conflation, I started working with this idea of just building the barest outline of a structure.  After a few small maquettes, I built Hot 3X3, using a simplified industrial roofline profile, but with three parallel structures in varying colors interlocked on a common base.  This is a fairly laborious process and it is difficult to get all of the angles precisely the same, as 1/32" variations in the lengths of the framing members can produce imperfections. 

I took this to my studio class for reactions, as I was a bit concerned that it might be too "pretty", but everyone seemed to like it, with comments that it felt like fire and the colors vibrated.  I think I'll do one with Day-Glo paints and illuminate it with black light if they want to see some vibration!  Interestingly, I had thought that it might be fun to built it in large scale such that a person could walk through, and someone else in the class suggested this.  However, with all those elements at foot level, you would need lots of liability insurance and many warning signs.

Following this are four images of variations on this theme, and this time I really mean it that there won't be any more text!  I will admit that some of the colors might be a tad more intense than they really are due to my loose working in Photoshop, however they are pretty saturated in actuality.