Illustration Friday - Voyage

Stories I Tell Myself About Reality

8 x 8

Acrylic and collage on box panel

After a long absence, I am returning to my blog and weekly Illustration Friday submissions.  The last year and a half has been (and continues to be) a long and arduous voyage, full of loss, fear, disappointment, guilt, and unexpected moments of hope and courage.  We experience life as an ongoing narrative that we tell ourselves to explain how events fit into our personal story.  I like the metaphorical strength of collage as a narrative device and hope to produce an ongoing series of collage works based on the theme "Stories I Tell Myself."  

I feel like Odysseus..... 

Jack makes the Tyler Newspaper

Jack

Mixed Media Sculpture

Just a small shameless plug today.  One of my sculptures currently on display at the Tyler Main Street Gallery was placed large and in charge on the front page of section B in the Tyler Morning Telegraph this last Saturday.  The paper used my photograph in the print edition, and used a image from the gallery in the online edition.  The article really only credits me for the sculpture and then goes on to interview another Mrs. Taylor (not me) about her Best in Show painting.  So if you don't read carefully you might assume that I was the person being interviewed.  You can read the online article here. http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20110820/FEATURES0701/110829997

Anyway, it was nice to be noticed.