When I first went to art school I had it all planned: spend a couple of years painting, graduate, and become famous. As it turned out, they knocked me down to foundation boot camp, and by the time I was finished, I was sculpting instead, creating elaborate installations. The moment I did graduate--two moments, because I went on to university to finish my Art History degree--I went straight back to painting, believing it impractical to make life-size (what else) statuary in the kitchen of my tiny apartment. This--in retrospect--was a mistake. It meant wasting time re-learning stuff from scratch to work in a different media--and I love sculpting, am probably better at it naturally, much to my surprise. Why do we make these decisions? Don't know.
Anyway, here are some of my ancient works, my favourite art school projects, and the more (or less) successful paintings I did afterwards. The paintings are basically flattened versions of the installations: simple figure, architectonic structure, symbolic elements here and there. My art historical roots are definitely showing through, most embarrasingly to my older eye. There are elaborate themes, symbolism, meanings, etc to these guys, but I can't remember, or don't have the energy to reconstruct them after all this time. Not that I'm knocking them...when/if I ever get out of this latest (fill in the blank) disaster, I want to revisit this style, and start sculpting again, dammit.
