Search

"Search"

 This new piece is called search. I hesitated to call it that because many of  my works feel like a search. Most of the things I do in my life are a search of sorts. I am always looking for my keys, my wallet, the best way to join two pieces of wood, the most effective route to a destination, the meaning to everything, not to mention a search for self.

Who am I really?

     One Thought:

I am looking

Looking for the moment

I became the line

Not the person holding the pen

But the line the pen made

I am that line

I find myself there

Every time I move the pen

Moved to define

Create shape

Shaded to forge depth

I am the line

Drawing it all together

It doesn't stop there

Because I am also

The color

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Shapes in a Pile
Doodle from sketch book
2025

 It has been too long!

need to share something

so maybe a pile of shape

every shape

leaves you with something

feeling, a memory, an idea

shapes are everything

they make up the world we see

and they move around in our brains

at least they do in mine

so from time to time I unload some

maybe you can use them

take them into your brain

or hang them on your wall

don't worry about me

I will make more.

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Holding Together

 Holding together

I have talked 

about lines

connecting

everything 

and holding

it all together

Lines can also

make it confusing

and seem like

I just don't know

what I am looking

at

or where they 

want me to go

what am I 

suppose

 to see

?

Lines will 

trick you

mislead one

 at times

bend you around

 and have you

turning the page

up 

side

down

saying what the...?

I believe 

I am the 

_________ .

When I draw

I am in there

making sense

of space

making use

 of the space

defining it

and the moment

It may not make sense

to you

but know

that I 

have enjoyed

myself

in the space 

for a moment.

That joy

is holding

it together.

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Father's Day Collaboration

I did another collaboration. On Fathers day I told my family I wanted to paint. So I had them all come over, I put out three primed panels and a bunch of paint and brushes and said pick a color, put a few marks on then pick another color and so on till we fill all three boards. The panel here is the smallest of the three. So once it was dry I started to draw into it.

This is the panel before draw-in

 

 On this panel I had added a few small pre-painted paper scraps that I glued in before my crew painted. They are the parts with finer detail. This is the panel after I started the draw-in.

I then decided on the second panel(not shown) to add more pre-painted scraps after the crew painted. I will try and do a post with all three of the Father's Day collaborations.

I really enjoy the feeling of connection when allowing others to create the base. I am working now at trying to move beyond just out lining color and to create a feeling of a story or many stories being told at once.

This becomes more of a depiction of our jumbled stories tangling with one another. This is the true challenge of life. How do we make all these stories move together?

                             The panel after draw-in

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Finding Faces

Going Around and Coming Around

When I draw line

I tend to start to see faces.

Some faces I see right away,

Some not until I am done.

Most of the time it is a profile.

Then I add eyes or mouth and nose lines to draw out the character.

This piece seems to have about nine faces or profiles.

See if you find more.

This is a mixed media piece. It started with the leaf-like shapes in the center cut from art paper. They were glued on with clear paint and the water colors washed in around them. I then set to work creating the lines and discovering faces.

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Sense

Make Sense of This

I tried to talk to you but my words made no sense

I tried listening but only heard the sound colors make

I beat sticks on rocks, that only chased snakes from their hiding places

I danced around in circles till someone said this is a square dance

I have tried to make sense of this

but it seems like I am getting nowhere

and if you've followed my previous words

you will realize that even nowhere is somewhere

So there I am, there we are, got the sense of this?

Yes you are deep into my head

Welcome

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A Vibe

"Picking Up On a Vibe" 

Every Line

Between two points

Has something

Like ripples on the water

To say

Straight as an arrow 

Every eye

Feasting on light

Will see things

Open wide or closed tight

A different way

The light within may guide you

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Somewhere

 

I left it somewhere.

The question is 

which somewhere?

There are so many

somewheres!

In fact everywhere

is a potential somewhere.

It is in a "where" that

something can always be.

Once something can

be there

it is a somewhere.

Above is a picture 

of about 100

different somewheres

and things being there.

This whole thing is pointless

but I like the picture

and had to put it

somewhere. 

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In This Way

 It is so far to the outside

where warmth lives between bodies

within this space

out of a need

we will touch

and in this way

we will be one

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No One Thing

I am here

and there

approaching from every direction

I am circle

and square

and have randomly placed selection

so that you have no true idea

of my intent

for it is no way sane 

this world I represent

take it

crumple it 

or do nothing with it at all

or smooth it

and frame it

and hang it on your wall

I call this Image "no one thing"

cause i wrote those words on it 

(the one red spot)

when I was creating it.

Not sure why. The poem came from

trying to explain the piece.

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In Relationship to the Vastness of the Universe

Undefined form and color

 

can cause the viewer distress

if the viewer requires clear structure 

to move through life.

My intent in creating this 

was not to define anything. 

The process

was to surprise or awaken me

leaving me with time spent 

in a state of play,

following the whims

of the movements of my hand and mind.

Is it art? 

In relationship to the vastness of the universe

the question and the image 

are just fun, to ask and see and to create.

Go out and play in your universe!

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In The Works

My brain is a machine

with a program

that runs constantly

The program is designed 

to keep me alive

The program's definition of alive

is survival

It is all it has ever known

When I ask it to show me true life

it says

it's in the works,

keep moving forward and you will work it out

 Let's think some more

Just keep thinking

You will work it out

Don't stop thinking

cause then you are dead,

just run the program 

It is in the works

I no longer think

this is true life.

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Thoughts on Portals

 Are you looking for a way to somewhere else?

Or are you already somewhere else looking for the way back?

The moral of most portal stories is, Stay put!

The lure of the light within the portal is an illusion.

The decision to go belongs to each traveler.

Just remember you are already somewhere else.

Are you getting this?

Wait, where did you go?

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Face It

 In every face

I find myself in some way

they are not me

they are not the me I pretend to be

they have the right to their own creation

that they have formed through years of work

but still I find myself in the pretending

we are all pretending

we are good at it

face it

we all start from the same clean slate

and life molds us into the pretending

I am in every face 

and you are all in mine

Look

face it

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Right Now

 June 2020

"Right Now"

is the painting's name

It's a brain dump

just marks, shapes and faces

like free writing

with paint and paint pens

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Moment # 16

Dream Fragment
# 8752










Jeff's lines

What's With Green?




What's With Green?

 

I take time now and then, no I steal it or scrap it together to do something I want to do. You see I see things in my head; shapes, lines, color, forms, figures, etc. and I draw them into my books. When I have a moment or feel the need I try and make some of these things real. Here is one of those shapes. The original drawing was just the shape, the color, painting and drawing was added after the shape was cut out of 1/2" wood. Now these are explorations. That's my way of saying I am not yet sure what the meaning of this work is. I just see it as play. I just keep adding what ever I feel. This peice is about 18 inches tall. Below are two close-ups.



A language I've been drawing for years.
I do not know what it means, but
 I feel what it means.










Creatures from the subconscious

 





 














Jeff making stuff

Up late again!

Sometimes when I stay up late it's because I am drawing. I've been doing abstract sketches in pencil. I then take the sketches or drawings and scan them into the computer. I can then layer them with my abstract light photos and change colors and run them through filters and have all kinds of fun. These are the same idea as the faces a few posts back.

These drawings come from internal image. I will often just start drawing and let the lines go where they will until defined image begins to creep in. I have no way to tell you what this is that your looking at, it's just a feeling given form. The feeling depends on your perspective and life experiences. Take from it what you will. These two images began with the same sketch.

"You people wouldn't believe the images trapped in my head waiting to come out". Wait!

Jeff Abstracted

Feeling on an Image

Title: I am Made Up


I am made up
I was once upon a time
Not here
And now I am
But not really
Cause I am made up.

I am like make believe
I pretend to feel
The things I feel
But they really belong
To the one who made me up

I think
But I am not sure
Cause I am made up

Because I am made up
I spend my time making things up
Things to amuse me
And please me
And to keep me from thinking
That I am made up.

Works for me
I'm just made that way


I've started working my drawings into my image creations, stay tuned for more.

I really like taking a fragment of my idea and googling it. Here is a link to a website that proves we are made up of 93% stardust. Check it out!
http://www.physicscentral.org/poster-stardust.cfm

Pretending to be Jeff