Rembrandt Ellipsed

We know what it means to eclipse an artist but what does it mean to ellipse one? Is ellipsing a valid gesture? What are its qualities? What is its goal?

This book examines enlarged selections of reproduced drawings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn through the digital process known as ellipsing.

60 pages, black and white paperback, available for $15 at: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/rembrandt-ellipsed/4818127

preview at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/27570408/Rembrandt-Ellipsed

9 Asemic Poems

The hand that writes is the hand that draws - and the hand that draws is the hand that writes. Asemic poems are created through this gestural overlap.  

Though these poems lack words, they are not mute.

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[ stages ]

a booklet of 17 digital drawings, 8x16" made in 2004

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VACATION SOUVENIRS

A booklet made with drawings (11x11") from 2004.

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PLANE ATTRACTION

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RAW BOOK (pages)

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As The If And

The challenge of mixing words and images (both abstract/ used abstractly) is getting them to touch or bounce off each other, getting them to interfere with each other's boundaries, getting them to trample or jump over the border between their separate rooms. Not the familiar redundant translation/ illustration gambit, not mirroring each other, but animating each other. I was thinking about this as I was making 'As The If And'.
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