One Painting with a Thousand Meanings

Build 1-3 canvases. Paint and repaint these canvases into a variety of paintings, photo documenting every stage as a new/original painting. Lies & Deception: photograph the raw linen as a graphite drawing, photograph the white gessoed surface as a white monochrome painted from some mysterious handmade paint, photograph a black ground as being from ashes, glue objects to surface and photograph as photorealism, paint silver as cinema screen, gold/bronze leaf.

Allegory of the Window-Mirror

Find old frames of interest. Paint them, or not. Have mirror cut to size. Photograph with camera or self in the reflection.

Allegory of the Filled Void: The Design of Everything/Nothing

Find objects that signify nothingness: vessels, phallic/vaginal forms, circles, transparent things. Photograph as reproductions. Also, find/make a cube of any material. Paint, applique, refinish this cube and present it as a variety of material: charcoal, graphite, poured paint, human skin, decaying plant matter, meat, plutonium, whatever.

Schematics of the Melancholic Cosmos

New collage series consisting of random assortments of images laid out in schematized flow diagrams. Use graphite or digital lines to create flows through the system.

Everything Spun into Negating Motion

Random image search utilizing key words sourced from readings. All images dumped into video timeline and made into a random flicker animation of potentially infinite length. Each key word creates a new film. Related idea: random keyword search to produce images of people for a portrait series.

Post-Existential Abstraction

Make one canvas. Paint a new painting every day using only black and white paint, one color per session, alternating every session. One day is additive, the next is subtractive, but which is which? Also: a series of monochromes using middle gray on various objects. Create interior spaces of the middle gray objects, using only full spectrum light to illuminate, so that the only color is of the room itself. !!!