Artist Book : META

1.)Songlines
(collage, ink and marker)


2.) I Think I'll Stay Awhile...
(collage, ink and acrylic)

Songlines, also called Dreaming tracks by Indigenous Australians, are an ancient cultural concept and motif perpetuated through oral lore and singing and other storytelling modalities such as dance and painting. Songlines are an intricate series of song cycles that identify landmarks and subtle tracking mechanisms for navigation. Each songline has a particular direction or vector, and walking the wrong way along a songline may be sacrilegious act, as at, for example, climbing up Uluru when the correct direction is down. For the Aborigine all land is sacred and alive. Their ancestors gave life in singing, gave them life through song, and dwell in the land still. The songs must be continually sung to keep the land "alive". In singing they preserve the land/story/dreaming of their ancestors, and recreate it in their oneness of past, present and future.

Artist Book : META

1.) PsychoPomp
(collage, ink and acrylic)

2.) Laws Will Be Broken
(collage, ink and acrylic)

3.) If You Lose Your Ship...
(collage and ink)

4.) Navigation
(collage, ink and acrylic)

META: Book II

1.) If There Is A Way To Find You...
( collage, ink, acrylic and marker)

2.) The Witching Hour
( collage, ink, acrylic and color pencil)

3.) Free Fall
( collage and ink )

4.) Some People Still Fear Large Bodies of Water.
( collage, ink and charcoal )

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The conclusion of Meta: Book One...

1.) Gatekeeper
(collage, ink and acrylic)


2.) The Handle Is One of Us
(collage and ink)


3.) WITNESS
(collage)

Hand bound editions of my artist book are available in soft cover and hard cover. I'm a skilled bookbinder, so please contact me if you are interested in purchasing an edition of META or any of the books included in META.

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1.) Upon The Event Horizon...
(collage, ink and marker)


2.) The Dreaming
(collage and mixed media)


3.) Revolution #1
(collage and acrylic)


4.) Only The Messenger
(collage, ink and acrylic)

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1.) There is no ram caught in the thicket.
(collage, ink, graphite)


2.) The Call
(collage and ink)


3.) A List of Secrets, Warnings and General Advice
( collage and ink )

Government and religion

1.) " Oil Food Water "
Lino Cut
8x11

We are in the midst of a food war. It's a war that has been waged against the people of the world. It is a war that is in the interest of large corporations, such as Monsanto. Genetically modified food, hormones and antibiotics in our meat, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oil, soybean oil, and enriched flour. We our being poisoned and it is government sanctioned. Our water is polluted, so we buy bottled water. That's more plastic to poison the earth, more oil to be drilled. This is the systematic poisoning of the masses.

2.) " Christ Love "
Lino Cut
3x5

Religion has done more harm to the world then good. We rape, torture, and kill in the name of God. We use the good book to justify the indignities we inflict onto the world.

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1.) A Book of Ontology
(collage and ink )
2.) META
(collage, ink, and crayon)
3.) TIME
(collage and ink)

META
1.transcending, encompassing
2.pertaining to a level above or beyond
AN ONTOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT

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META...
Take anything in the world and look at it as something that is.
To clarify the notions by which we ( I ) understand the world ( existence, objecthood, property, space, time, causality, possibility). Or the relations these things bear to one another.

1. Tell Me Do You Feel That?
(collage, ink, acrylic)
2. Horror is the Future.
(collage and ink)

3. To Natives It Is The Way of The Law.
(collage and ink)
4. When The Axe Came To The Forest...
(collage and ink)

These are the first few pages of the artist book that I have been working in and on for over a year now. There are over 100 pages of collage and mixed media art pieces that string together to form a non-linear narrative.