Moment#12

The Overhang

Rickets Glenn State Park, PA

Cherry Run

Notion #16

There is a point where you stop talking and listen

There is also a point where you stop looking and see

I think it maybe that just past that point is where we begin to feel

At that point there is no turning back

Keep on going


Photo: Acadia  National Park, Maine
A link to my photos of Acadia and Maine
Acadia Photos 2012 
 

as my soul sees me

"as my soul sees me"

Unaware that I am walking around

My soul thinks I float

unaware that I can produce sound

My soul assumes I'm mute

My soul is just aware of all the spaces with in me

and the struggles they posses

Each space holds one conflict

one dilemma, trying to work itself for me out

or one excitation, one elation 

Burning to express this myself without doubt.

This is just a fragment of the confusion

with which my soul sees me.

I may write more later and then again may not.



The above wood cut sculpture is about four feet tall by two feet wide.
For Sale - Cost $650.00
contact through www.jkcwood.com  

Jeff with his wiggly saw.

  

Moment #11

Painting of a boy. Original above computer enhanced below.

Jeff working the paint

Shape Shifting

These are fragments of photos mounted on blocks of wood that I then moved around on a black canvas and photograph. The individual shapes you see in these images are parts of photos that have been cut up. I can use the shapes again and again and arrange them any way I want and then rephotograph them. I can then work with them in Photoshop in the computer again to change them even more.

The computer creates the burst behind the shape out of the refection of the flash. This is done by running the image through one of the programs many filters

















 

My inspiration for this work comes from the Dada artist Jean (Hans) Arp, this is one of his works to the left. To see more images of his work follow this link

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/jean-arp/not-far-from-the-sun-the-moon-and-the-stars



Jeff moving more shapes

Moment #10

"Fiddle head Spirit"

Wall sculpture 4.5' tall

acrylic paint on plywood

Shape of things

Well it has been a while. I started out two years ago with this blog posting several times a month and now I am down to several times a year. Oh well let's see if I can pick up the pace again. Last winter I discovered the "Dada" artist Jean Arp and ever since then I have been playing with shape. I try not to think to much about shapes as I cut. I just try and let the saw go and give me some thing new. Then I do a little painting and I have my shapes. I can then work with the shapes moving them around on a blank  paper to try and create feeling or story. Every little movement of the shape changes the feeling of the over all image. I will continue to work with the shape until I find  the placement I think they need to be in permanently.  Each different arrangement I make I try to give a title to or even a story, The one below I call "Four On a Walk" These shapes have a feeling of individual character.

I will photograph many versions of these four pieces and at some point will probably secure them in place on a background. I enjoy the form not only of the shapes but the spaces created between the shapes. These abstract shapes are open to a totaly free interpretation. I find this kind of artistic play extremly freeing and relaxing. it evokes both story idea for my lyric writing, but has a musical quality; different shapes give me sound ideas. This all takes place of coarse in my head and is hard to explain in words. it has to do with letting the imagination fly and the movement of the shapes for me some how helps with the creation of this inner music, that I always hope will make it out into a performable song.

For more info on Jean Arp follow this link to his Guggenheim Page Jean Arp

Jeff moving shapes around






"Looking Four a Way Out"