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7ree3utte, is, as it sounds, an ode to trees. The patterns on birchwood panels sometimes make my heart beat quickly. I thought, it would be a shame to lose that forever, it’s a work of art in its own right. I felt the need to preserve the patterns, enhance them, and bring them to life with the figures and forms that felt familiar in the curves and rings.

This is a collaboration, bringing together the creativity of human and of trees, our angels, the makers of the oxygen we breathe. We’ve long felt a spiritual connection with them as organisms. The forms of their roots, leaves, branches and bark epitomize an unlimited sensuality, mirroring the flow and arrangement of water, stars, matter, neurons, veins, electricity, and the virtual structure of information on the internet. These are the kinds of patters I find meaningful in the universe. They make me feel connected to everything. What could I, alone, make that would surpass the elegance of these patterns?

This organism had stretched toward the sky for years or decades before it was sacrificed, sliced, glued, and sanded smooth for our entertainment and convenience, so that it could be slathered in marble dust, pigment and polymer emulsion derived from paingstainkinly mined materials and transported and processed then transported and packaged then transported and displayed and, finally, sold to me in exchange for an abstract misrepresentation of my labor hours. I feel a sense of awe for its sacrifice, and for that of the millions of humans that came together to make it exist. I wanted to preserve and celebrate that ritualistic process, while also paying my respects.

I create works that situates myself as an artist in the wide and intertwined world. Human with nature, technology with biology, mind with body: three continuums misrepresented as dualities.

Treebutte is a part of a larger series I call UT0PI4P0C4LYPS3 which explores similar themes. Please visit my P0RTF0L10 to view my work.

Tribute to Trees pt. 1 June 2017

Underwater (Tribute to Trees Pt. II) November 2017

Primordial Slime September 2017

  7REE3UTTE 7ree3utte, is, as it sounds, an ode to trees. The patterns on birchwood panels sometimes make my heart beat quickly.

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Tattoo Design

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Quitooo is beautiful.

Some pictures of the sky and mis amigos in Quito. 

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We have a nice view

Here’s a sweet time lapse video of cloud formations over Pichincha I took last week!

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Captivating photo of a 94yo tattoo artist who lives deep within the depths of the Philippines. Her name is Fang (Whang)-Od. Those tattoos are traditional Filipino tribal designs, an art form dating back to the pre-Spanish occupation.

For more info about her and these type of tattoos, read more here.

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sculpture ceramic | JUDY FOX

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Jenn Thompson.

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Ooo mah grrl Cassie wrote a cool poem <3

note by some-a-thing

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Sex is a lot like a satanic ritual. Sometimes there’s virgins involved, candles are nice, you’re disappointing Christians, Satan is there.

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Pit bull, Dan Witz

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23 times America failed black people in 2014

Without question, black people dominated news coverage this year, but often not for reasons many would celebrate. 

As America witnessed the killings of unarmed black people by police, the reality of a broken justice system, the perpetuation of various anti-black stereotypes and racism rearing its head within many major institutions, the country had no choice but to face its racial demons head-on. 

Here are but a few of the many moments when the country failed its black citizens in 2014.

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Me and my babies in Centro Historico.

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Lol

Scumbag Baby Boomer memes are the greatest.

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Protests and clashes for the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa in Mexico City. Set I of II. 

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2 Generations