the a list

  Here's one that slipped my mind.  I had three asemic prints published  in DeLuge Journal in last years Fall/Winter 2022 issue .  These are prints from the pandemic era and ones that I think have stood the test of a few passed years.   

  1291 numbers (016) Ink & pencil on paper Published in Stonecrop Magazine

  1188 Monoprint 4X7 (158) Ink and pencil on paper Published in Stonecrop Magazine

  1146 Minimal (11) ink & pencil on paper published in Stonecrop Magazine

  Things are getting larger. The art is at least.  This piece and 40 or so others I've created in June/July 2022 started on 11X14 inch paper, much larger than my typical 3X5 pieces over the last few years.   This is a multimedia work, pencil, print, and gesso on paper.  As always this piece and others found on this website and instagram are for sale.   Email me  for more info. 

 This... is another in a series of small handmade books I've been building. This one is much more free form and blends collage, prints, stickers (yes lovely, lovely stickers - a childhood obsession) and other miscellaneous ingredients. 

  This little unconventionally unfolding book was inspired by my trip to San Francisco in May 2022 and a mild obsession with a rotary sign in Chestnut Hill.  The book contains a few words in English "We just wanted the universe and its perpetual perfect attendance" The book contains a multitude of words in Chinese characters cut from a San Francisco Chinese translation of of the Conservative newspaper Epoch Times. Knowing only a few things about the source of the Chinese characters San Francisco origin Chinese translation conservative Epoch Times May 2022 time frame Leads, at least in my mind, down many contradictory paths. Ultimately I'm forced to know very little, to have very limited foundation for any opinions, and I am forced to contend with my biases. 

  A small little book/graphics project I finished up in early May 2022.  

  This is... a collection of various accordion books I've crafted over the past few years. Behind the video is the song "We're In Love - There's the Song (Instrumental)" I recorded in April when I had a bout with omicron BA.2.  The books are mainly filled with handmade print blocks I've created in the same few years.   

  This is... a photograph - one in a series titled "studies in light'.  Part of an even larger series called 'Light is Life'.

  Blooms: a poem and illustrations by andrew furst  was a fun little staple bound book project that balanced whimsy and and precise planning. Part of the humor comes from the cutouts that pull in partial images from the next page.  They amplify the absurdity of the poem and the images themselves. What is more absurd than falling into pants?  Well, for one thing - fish in pants! These were limited edition.  The one in the video is my sole copy.    Let's talk if you'd like to purchase it.

 As art goes, with the pandemic, my propensity for obsession, and a near death experience as an excuse to relearn the use of my right hand, ALOT. It's good that I opted for small. I've produced well over 1,000 pieces of art - not to mention music, poems, photographs, graphics, and videos since 2019.  My proliferation of expression was bolstered by the isolation of these COVID times. As we near - knock on wood - the transition from pandemic to endemic, I woke up this morning with this thought.  If art, like any form of expression, is communication, am I getting what I want from it?  That's a big question (share first, synthesize later).  I'll label it for future consideration.

  This multimedia print came to be eight or nine months into the pandemic. It spans a few decades in origin.  The number 3 recalls a numbered series of paintings I created before my kids were born. The relief number print shares space with some abstract mono printing, an ascemic treatment of our nation's motto E Pluribus Unum (Out of many, one), and some colored pencil. As you can see here, during the most intense periods of the pandemic, I signed all works with the acronym CVP - for Corona Virus Pandemic.