Welcome to the 2004 section, Scroll down to view images.

There's some stuff around from 2004, but I haven't scanned it or gotten it ready for the web yet. I spent the year teaching, but was also developing the ideas for the Questions for Eve paintings and doing a lot of drawing (see the Graphpaper sketchbook below). I played around with papier maché. I wrote down some poems and some thoughts... tried to chonicle realizations and take notes on conclusions from the Experiment into Conventional Lifestyle I was living, but those are all stashed away in brown paper bags, waiting to be sorted through one of these days soon. I'll post things here as I get them ready (here they are).

A lot of the paintings that I've posted from the Eve series were done during 2004, almost all of them have been painted over since then however... painting over some of them might have not been good decisions___ looking back on it with hindsight's clarity, although I kinda like some of the paintings that are gone, I think it was ok to paint over most of them____ and it's too late now to change it back, so I might as well make the most of it.

I like painting over paintings, it takes some of the pressure off___ less of a need to get it right___ more incentive to take risks, and allows for fun and freedom... sometimes I think about just painting one canvas over and over from here on out, but I doubt that I will. Still, it's a thought. If you haven't already checked out the Eve paintings, do so please, by clicking here.

Below are some odds and ends from 2004 that were laying around on my computer.

Graphpaper Sketchbook

Sometime in 2004, my friend Tim reorganized his bookshelves, and wound up with a couple of boxes of books he was going to donate. before he took them away, he let me have my pick. I grabbed a few, among which was a leather bound graphpaper notebook. the binding was broken along the spine and the first several pages were used, but the rest was blank and it looked like a good book to use for drawing. I taped the spine with orange duct tape and ignored the botany class (?) field notes and began using it. I continued to draw in it intermittently and enjoyed the artificially imposed structure provided by the grid and experimented with different ways of either utilizing or ignoring it. Eventually though, I got sidetracked and left it incomplete... I guess it goes as far as March 2005, because the last page has a Mody Dick drawing and our reading was in March (there was no 2004 reading). Actually, having looked more closely at the pages, all the darwings were done in 2004, the final ones being dated December, with the possible exception of the Moby Dick drawing, which was probably March 2005, but could have been earlier. After that, I stopped using this book and so, it is only about half filled now, maybe I'll finish it up sometime soon, but here is what I've got so far (scroll down for thumbnails). if I do get around to finishing it, I'll try to remember to link to it from here... I'm sure I'll remember, I'm not sure I'll finish it though.