The paper the pictures are mounted on is the back side of can labels from ration biscuit cans from a lifeboat from '81. We found hundreds of the cans in an old lifeboat my grandpa was restoring. Also in there were cans of special milk. It was really gross, but the labels were cool. The quote is from
Le Petit Prince and translated is
when one is truly sad, one likes sunsets. I took the photos in Niagara Falls last year.
This one has a hand that is actually the outline of the shadow of my hand that I drew during a psychology lecture last year. There is a broken playground swing hanging off the finger. The quote is from a song by Switchfoot.
This is one of my favourites. It is built around an Emily Dickinson poem that has been a warm spot in my mind for a long time. I once composed music for it, but I lost the score.
This is a photo of a graveyard I took two autumns ago. The birds in the trees are the ravens from Norse mythology, huginn and muninn (thought and memory) the quote is from a Sigur Rós song and it says
yes-- they healThis one is a tree, it's half finished because I liked the idea that it could go anywhere with imagination. The quote is also from Sigur Rós and translates to
the best that god has made is a new day.
This was inspired by one of my close friends. I asked her what to draw and she said "longing". I took the photos as the sun set at a friend's house in California and drew the birds in with pen. The little girl is reaching for the birds, and the french quote is from an Enya song, it means
I would like to fly like a bird of the wing.
This is a sketch of an old graveyard in NYC right across from where the world trade center used to be. This was one of the first pieces like this I did, it's from about three years ago. I forget where I found the quote, but it was in my little book of random words and quotes that I collect.