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The Architecture of Bones

Remaining with the rather morbid topic of my previous post (Bones Repurposed), I thought I would take a deeper look at the other ways people have chosen to remember the dead. This search brought me to the Capuchin Crypt in Italy. The space is located beneath the Santa Maria della Immacolata Concezione church in Rome and houses more than 4,000 deceased Capuchin monks.

The architecture here seems to be more ornate and planned than the architecture in the Catacombs beneath Paris. Instead of creating the walls themselves, the bones are arranged as decoration on the walls in a tribute to the monks that served there. Using these skeletons as a part of the architecture has allowed for more free space in the crypts. Because of the strange nature of this place, the crypts have become quite and interesting tourist destination.

This location is not the only crypt of its kind, but it has certainly stirred up some interesting conversation. It seems that people from all over the world have been able to find a morbid fascination in locations such as this, and there are plenty of other blogs on the subject as well, discussing the fact that this crypt is not the only one of its kind in the world.

There is great curiosity as to what happens following death, and perhaps this is the reason why there has been such a focus on the use of human remains in certain forms of architecture. At any rate, it has certain caught the attention of the world and led tourists to this destination for many years.

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World Horns 101 pt 1

Virtually any type of tube, some even without having sustained any modification can be used as a music instrument simply by sounding it as a horn. A series of notes can be produced in this way through the use of the harmonic series. Here is a look at some of...

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Paintings

Here's some paintings that I did over last year. I never took pictures of them while they were hung up all around my dorm's common room, so here they are in all their glory on my garage floor. I like some of them better than others, and I especially like the robot and squid doctor which was a collabrative effort by Jack Sukimoto and I. He drew the android and anthropomorphic squid and I painted over his initial penciling. They are all on cardboard (since I didn't want nor could afford to buy canvas). This last years painting style has deviated pretty heavily from my work in the past which has been mainly abstract acrylic or spraypaint. I see my work turning more into illustration and I like that. It will probably make it harder to be considered "art", but who cares what they say anyway?

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Printmaking

Well, the last quarter of the year is coming to a close here at The Evergreen State College, but my life adventures are still just starting. It's been quite the quest to find an apartment or house or anything and sometimes I feel like I'd be better off homeless, but some people just won't let me do that yet.

 Anyway, I had a lot of fun in my program /The Incisive Line/ taught by TESC faculty member Lisa Sweet. For those of you unfamiliar with Evergreen, there are not may 2-4 credit classes but often large 8-16 credit ones. My course this spring focused on printmaking and printmaking history. I knew this was going to be a challenge, and it was, but I think I also produced some really awesome prints. Most of these images exist in editions of 5 to 10 and are available for sale, so if you want one let me know! The sizes vary from about 2" (the angler fish engraving) to 30" (black and white woodcut). The techniques in these photos include engraving, etching, aquatint, woodcut, and reduction cut. I won't go into detail on each process except to say these were made by making a matrix (either wood or copper in these cases), putting ink on or in it and then pressing it onto paper (usually through a large rolling press). I was definitely more fond of the woodcuts because they produce a much blocker, illustrated looks, which is more similar to how I think artistically.

 In any case, hope you enjoy my fruits of my labor. If you want to know anything more about a specific piece, just comment and I'll do my best to answer your questions.