Not enough time (but that can be good)

Like many working people in Chicago, I'm allotted too few hours in the day. Between Chicago Artist Month starting tomorrow, teaching and tutoring, and making my own work, there's seemingly no time left to spend with my wife let alone anyone or anything else.
Though I remember just 6 years ago I had too much time on my hands. I had finished school and was sending out applications to colleges while making work in my parent's basement. What I thought would be a brief time of transition turned into nearly a year of working, waiting, and wishing.
What's the point of remembering this? There isn't one, not really. Except that it shows just how clouded the past is. Just like the worlds I create in my images, time is dependent on the context it's in.

JUST finished drawing

I am so glad that this drawing is finally done. Putting down my ideas onto paper has led me to ask if the immediacy (compared to the paintings) and the loose quality it brings might be doable in a paining. Though I haven't figured out if it is worth negating the meanings surrounding document-like appearance my paintings need

A Different Sort of March on Washington

Back in July I created White Men (left) for the exhibition paper works . I'd forgotten how different an approach drawing is. From start to finish the image took about 3 longish days in a process which is much freer than the paintings I've worked on in the past 5 years. I really like the idea and action itself of working in chalk and charcoal, something I mentally associate with French academic art. However, this drawing is based on a digital photo taken on vacation sent through my computer to a projector intended for television or classroom work.

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