Surrealist Scrapbooking

ike

This is the most powerful image in my thrift shop collection of abandoned images. I remember snatching it so fast from a stack of images in a Kansas City flea market booth that I nearly ripped it. Sometimes I like to convince myself the hunchy man on the left with the camera or binoculars on his arm is Dwight Eisenhower or Bob Hope. 

olds.

 

It's been a long time so, I thought I would post something.
Found in my grandfather's photograph box.
The river over flows.

the truth is, i still feel young

serious hiatus

I am still here. Here near the ocean. 

I'll be back soon. 

my apologies for the long pause..

Another from this series of explorations I started to share HERE.

i hope i can keep working like this+i found andy griffith's wallet.

I found this little wallet at the flea market this weekend. 

Clearly, now that I've moved I really need access to a better scanner. 

gems in my collection.

That past 2 days have been my first few official days of grad. school. 

The whole experience is surreal. 

grandfathers

 

playing grown up.

and so. we graduated.

i think it says something..

I bought this image last fall....as in Fall 2008. I thought it would be an interesting candidate for some of the cut out images I had been working on. However, I hadn't gotten the image back out since I bought it. That is until today.
This spring, I was accepted into a graduate program in San Francisco. On our hunt for a new home, we have been considering across the bay from San Francisco in an area called Alameda for the cheaper rent and small town feel. If I were to live there, I had thought ideally, I could ride a ferry from there to SF for school everyday. This ferry is the same exact ferry line as the one in the image.

Always look closely.

there is a woodpecker on the roof of my apartment every morning..

Here's to goats on your roof...

my collection of characters

So, I buy a lot of stuff at thrift stores....Some might consider it a problem...

Over the past year, I've purchased a lot of stuff, including a lot of photographs. Many of which, I don't necessarily plan to include in my artwork but instead hang on my walls, store away for later, or use for inspiration. Anyway, while doing some organizing today, I realized they were worth posting.
They are indeed a quite nice little collection of characters....

the adventures of gordon betty

I purchased a packet of negatives and slides in my favorite little booth at the River Market Flea. The packet is labeled Gordon Betty (insert an island name I can't recall at the moment) Greenland. Inside is a very strange assortment of images depicting who I assume is Mr. Betty, a few of his friends, and his travels. I'd like to make various sized prints and make an installation out of them. That is, if I can ever find the time in between thesis and have the money after printing my senior show. 

At what point does someone die and while sifting through their belongings someone says...'Let's sell Uncle Gordon's photo albums instead of keeping them'....

Anyway....Gordon and I are getting to know each other, and he's a pretty interesting guy...