Everything Everywhere All of the Time

So I went to Art Chicago, and it was actually not the craven deal-brokering I imagined but something more like a laidback but really, really upscale swap meet.  More on that later.

Below is some new stuff; these were made in a very Rube Goldberg way by printing color blocks over actual book pages and then scanning the somewhat random results.  Most of the pages I grabbed from the falling-apart, 20-year-old book were from the Flowers or the Medical and Anatomy sections. 

The whole deal comes out of thinking about Wade Guyton, who has a sort of inkjet-printer-as-paintbrush way of working that’s more interesting and complex than it sounds and is (I think) a great idea, but what’s a little problematic for me is that Guyton’s actual work is a little disappointing in light of the greatness of the idea: run canvas through an inkjet printer so what you’ve got is half-digital, half-”handmade.”  But I might just not be familiar enough with his work.

So the stuff below is part one of a three-pronged attempt to answer the question of whether I can borrow that idea and make something decent that’s not just a ripoff.  (Jury’s still out.)  Prongs two and three will appear in future posts; I’ve been making a ton of work since my thesis show closed, as if the clock is ticking, hence the post title; I’m Making Art as Fast as I Can.  Quality control is for talented people.