New Studio

Recently Eric and I moved our asses into a sweet slab downtown and fortunately, it had an awesome upstairs room that was perfect for a nice little studio. Its an awesome environment to produce work in and I love having a place to store all of my shit. Another thing that's cool about it is that its kinda hidden back behind the kitchen outta sight so its like my own little pad where I can cry and cut myself and masturbate. One down side is that it is summer and it gets SO FUCKING HOT up there sometimes that I cant even work up there. Anyways, I took some pics of it.


ENTER THE CUM LORD LAIR




UP & UP








A coupla gems!


Some leftovers from sculpture this summer





Got this in Italy. Red book from Mao in Italian.


Some other tight photo books I recently ordered




Traditional Pinocchio print from Italy. Incest.


Here's a retard dog that Dusty drew me lol


Some dumb shit I drew


Also, the back door of the studio opens up to the an attic equipped with an exhaust fan. Spray and Storage room? I think so


My framed magazine cut-out of a Mr. Choe.

More work in photo: Westwood

During the second semester I did a photo documentary mini-series on Westwood Lanes off of Jefferson. I asked permission of the owner to just basically chill around all day long and take pictures. So day after day I just took pictures, drank beer, and befriended the local employees.
Westwood Lanes has been a landmark in Fort Wayne ever since I have been born and to this day still remains exactly the same. I remember goin there when I was like fuckin 6 years old with my dad but I never really understood its importance in the city until I really thought about it. Westwood Lanes is constantly oozing with so much damn culture that it's impossible to NOT get amazing pictures. On weekdays during the day it’s completely dead or filled with dedicated league bowlers. On Fridays and Saturdays it becomes filled to the brim with teenagers, families, couples, the elderly, the rich, and the poor. I got aspects of the people and the surroundings caught in b&w film.










Craig ended up showing me the back of the bowling alley which was fucking ridiculously awesome.

Updates n Shit

Currently I am busy with creating the album artwork for my friends in the Fort Wayne based pop-punk band, Close Only Counts. Musically, the album is absolutely fucking awesome so I encourage everyone to buy it when it releases. I'm just trying to add my own spark to it and I'm very glad that they asked me.

Check them out please:

www.myspace.com/closeonlycountsfw

Pieces from TTH Exhibition (if you are interested in purchasing anything, let me know)

These are the pieces I submitted to The Tell-Tale Heart show that opened on the 17th. I will put prices w/ them so if you are interested please contact me through email at: wilsontr1@cougars.sf.edu




Heart, mixed media, SOLD


Busy, Busy, Marker ink & oil on paper, $100



"Object there was none", marker & stain on panel, $125



Funhouse Redwood, marker & ink on paper, $50



Nerves, aerosol marker & charcoal on panel, $50



"Passion there was none", marker & stain on panel, $125


Again, if you are interested in buying anything from me or even anybody else who was in the show, contact me at: wilsontr1@cougars.sf.edu

PICS FROM TELL-TALE HEART!

Last Saturday was the opening for The Tell-Tale Heart feat. Dusty Neal, Katie Moore, Nate Click, and myself! Thanks to everyone who came out and supported, I really appreciate it. The night ended up goin really well and a lot of shit was sold...there is still more stuff to sell tho! So contact anybody from the show if you would like to purchase something.

I'm going to post some of the pictures of peeps who came and how everything looked. After that I will post the work that I had up.

Recent work in photo...

Each photo in this post deals w/ a different subject, however, all were shot and developed manually. I used a Vivitar Single Lens Reflex camera w/ Ilford HP5 B&W 400 ISO film.


Self-Portrait.
In my self portrait I wanted to explore the fact that a human's physical make-up is exactly like that of a beast. Humans are made up of flesh, bone, and cartilage just like an animal. I wanted to be naked because I felt it the closest I could come to being symmetrical with the animal. With the right placement and the help of Matt's finger on the shutter release, it ended up looking pretty sweet. Above me are about 4 or 5 uncooked steaks hanging from hooks.







Documentary series
Recently I've been getting into a lot of documentary style photography like Gavin Watson and Alessandro Zuek Simonetti. I wanted to follow one of my friends from an old job, Matt, around for a couple days w/ his friend (and his girlfriend) in the Mobile Home Park on Wells Street. These are only two from the whole series.








MISC

VERY VERY BUSY...

Today is the start of the hanging for The Tell-Tale Heart....I will have pictures up of new shit very soon once everything is set up!

Everyone's pieces are done and lookin real nice so it should be an awesome show.
Updates soon...