Renderings

The profile of a simple vase is drawn, and extruded along itself. The resulting piece has a footprint which is the same is it's cross-section

Dinner for Ari & Jeannine

Since yesterday was Valentine's day, I decided to put together a special meal for some special friends. Here's what was left after the smoke cleared:

Maple poached tofu, tuna bacon.
The picture doesn't do this justice... it was actually quite good, I swear

Cream of white asparagus & shallot

Apple, manchego, honey

A variation of a Korean ssam bap; baby bok choy, rice, omelette, toasted nori, gochujang

Flatbread, tomato fennel puree, mozzarella, homegrown micro greens

Pan-seared tilapia, mango jalapeno slaw, Chalula mayonnaise

Lemon sorbet, blood orange reduction, fennel whipped cream, candied ginger

A Painting

Here's a new piece that I'm working on in the studio right now. I have been making these panels lately that read both as paintings as well as sculptural objects.

New work

I designed these vessels... or mass-els (thanks D Schafer) from a profile of a traditional Korean vase form. Each piece uses the same profile, but using a different shape as the footprint. Thirty-two 1/8" slices of MDF were cut on a laser plotter, then assembled and smoothed with wood filler. It was my original intention for these prototypes to be used for a plaster mold, and eventually cast in porcelain. However, I am more interested now in the forms in their solid, unfinished state.



These six paintings were shown in my last critique, along with the laser-cut vessels above. The idea of understanding and constructing form between two and three dimensions, as well as an interest in developing systems and templates for realizing form has been consistent in my painting, sculpture and design work.