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Experimental ART in Austin, TX

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Years ago, I began wanting to develop my work enough to show in gallery events. This partially led to the development of ART7 and the...
Years ago, I began wanting to develop my work enough to show in gallery events. This partially led to the development of ART7 and the rest of the ART series on Playdate - in that case, I figured I could just make my own gallery. But still, a lot of the work I'm interested in making is fully in the realm of the physical. I spend time with friends every week at a local Art Night hosted at the Highland Collective here in Austin. It has been an amazing place to focus and/or not focus. To talk to other artists,...
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I Only Exist in Pieces
ARTwork Collections Playdate

I Only Exist in Pieces

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Importantly - 256x144px Until I am put back together This piece was made intentionally bigger than what can be displayed in Pulp on the Playdate....
Importantly - 256x144px Until I am put back together This piece was made intentionally bigger than what can be displayed in Pulp on the Playdate. I have it as the Entry work to the Gallery proper in ART& as a statement and to begin to bend expectations for a videogame art gallery. As you find fragments scattered about the grounds, you will fill in holes in its tapestry and uncover a message, specifically: 'I Only Exist in Pieces.. Until I am put back together' This is the Zilker Park Tree of Lights in Austin, TX. Now eclipsed somewhat in fame...
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ART& – Loss & Interpretation
ARTwork Collections Photography Playdate

ART& – Loss & Interpretation

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ART in Translation across Medium During development of ART& I was walking through a massive MC Escher exhibit in Houston. So many of his works...
ART in Translation across Medium During development of ART& I was walking through a massive MC Escher exhibit in Houston. So many of his works in black and white seemed like they would translate delightfully into low-res 1-bit, but that would fundamentally change what they are, even while bringing them to a new platform. With Escher, the detail and craft embody the message, but there is a loss in translating mediums. The work is fundamentally a different thing even were the artist themselves to craft it.  Running through my mind while viewing a master's work and seeing the arc of...
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Dungeon Zero
ARTwork Collections Videogames

Dungeon Zero

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https://youtu.be/bjIbBWGffog At the beginning of the pandemic, stuck at home, I needed something to sink my teeth into. As a video editor, I had always...
https://youtu.be/bjIbBWGffog At the beginning of the pandemic, stuck at home, I needed something to sink my teeth into. As a video editor, I had always wanted to get deeper into understanding and recording audio. So I looped my friend William Monroe into creating a podcast with me centered around the game AI Dungeon The concept was to record short to medium length playthroughs of AI-guided roleplaying sessions. Then, to put a little more production into the project, Misty Witten came on to do narration and characters as she was working on finding her voice as a voice actor. I was...
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The Balloon Collective
ARTwork Balloons Collections Photography

The Balloon Collective

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The Balloon Collective has kept me in the Art-making business since I started helping out at SXSW 2018. We do small-large scale decor pieces -...
The Balloon Collective has kept me in the Art-making business since I started helping out at SXSW 2018. We do small-large scale decor pieces - Garlands of Organic, Ceilings, Streamers, Backdrops and Balloon Sculpture (Nate the Great is amazing at this). Below are some pictures of the work. Follow @TheBalloonCollective for more! [gallery_p_gallery id=1]
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Boop!
ARTwork Collections Photography

Boop!

dtw
The Gallery shown in the sidebar of these pages is a series of 'Digital Instant' photography. Every image is the result of a Boop! in...
The Gallery shown in the sidebar of these pages is a series of 'Digital Instant' photography. Every image is the result of a Boop! in which I reach out with an innate sense of composition to capture a photo. These are truly instant and shot from the hip pictures, but it is the limitations of the process that are a literal joy! Due to the intentional design of the camera system (a papershoot), I can neither studiously compose a shot nor review it immediately afterward. The philosophy behind the device is to bring back the mystery of shooting instant film...
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