so i recently got engaged (yay!) and am slowly entering into the crazy/bizarre world of planning a wedding. so, that being said… anyone want some wedding cake?

spent the weekend down in DC and visited the National Gallery which is one of my favorite museums. it’s chuck full of masterpieces; the main rooms are all lit with natural light; and there’s a beautiful austerity to how the art is displayed. this is a photo that i took of Randolph Rogers’s marble statue entitled “Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii”. carved in 1860. photography of a museum’s general collection is usually permitted. it’s the travelling shows that prohibit photographs.

Roll over the image to see it glow. There is no Photoshop trickery here. The first image was taken with the lights on (duh) and the second with a long exposure in the dark.

This project was therapeutic at first, and eventually became something I had to force myself to finish. Kind of like running a yarn marathon.

It’s approximately 48 x 48 inches. Rug “resolution” is about 25 ypi (yarns per inch), so it had to be big to show detail in the image.

I became intrigued with the idea of this type of imagery colliding with a clean home furnishing item. And, I guess I threw in some childhood nostalgia for good measure. The glow-in-the-dark (anyone else have glow-in-the-dark boxes for your baby teeth?), the skull (raised on punk rock) and shag rugs (the 70’s) all remind me of when I was a kid. Why not jam them all together?

This a long exposure of the summer sky looking northeast. The Summer Constellations are the 17 constellations that fall between June and August. Some of the more famous ones are part of this group, including Sagittarius, Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquarius. This was taken from Long Island.

I completed this illo of Ben Bernanke earlier today for a Wall Street Journal economic forecast interactive. The spooky atmosphere may be influenced by the Algernon Blackwood book I’ve been reading as of late.

Sketch drawn on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade days after September 11th, 2001.

If you pick up a copy of this week’s U.S. News & World Report you’ll find a few of my drawings inside. The illos are for the annual ‘Paying for College’ package, and the team at the magazine picked a fun “Texas Hold ’em” theme for this year’s section. Lots of great visuals to work from!
The image above is the opener for the package.
Click to see a larger version with the rest of the illos.
You can see more of my work for U.S. News & World Report here.