Take a walk, find inspiration, make art.
The goal: take a walk every day in January and use something found on the walk to inspire artwork for the day.
I’d photograph something on the walk and then paint it later that day. In displaying for the show this year, I opted for abstract collages on wood panels. To see the original paintings and the inspiration, check out my video slideshow on Instagram.
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One-of-a-kind Glass Mosaics come to life on local, salvaged frames of glass or wood.
These items are available for purchase. Commissions are welcome, contact me to get started. Scroll to the bottom of the page for previously sold works and commissions.
I love transforming old slides into colorful light displays for the home.
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Documenting my exploration of the city as I attempt to walk every inch of every street in Pittsburgh.
I started in my neighborhood and began crossing off the streets one at a time, exploring this wonderful city with the goal to put my feet, one step at a time, on every inch of every mile of the 90 neighborhoods that make up Pittsburgh, 1000+ miles. You'll find just a few of the many photos collected on my forays on this page.
Stay tuned for my upcoming books! In the meantime, a more comprehensive gallery can be found here....
An ongoing documentation of various views of the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning, visible from almost every part of the City.
Intrigued by the old lenticular art of the 60's, I decided to create some lo-tech versions in cardboard...
Finishing the Unfinished
Fun-A-Day, originally started by a group of Philly artists, is designed to start the year off right by committing to doing something fun and creative each and every day for one month in the dead of winter. The culmination of projects are then exhibited in an open gallery setting for all to marvel at and enjoy. The types of projects are only limited by the limits of our imaginations.
As part of Fun-a-Day 2018, I painted 30 rocks and placed them throughout the City.
On the back of each rock is an invitation to keep or re-hide the rock and post on Facebook with tag: #funadaypgh.
31 Walks in 31 days in 31 different neighborhoods spelling out "31 Walks January 2017 FunADay PGH!"
In 2017 I decided to incorporate WATSOP into this, my second Fun-A-Day project. Always fascinated by the resulting shapes when using the Map My Walk app, I decided to walk each day with a predetermined shape in mind. Ultimately settling on creating letters and numbers, to further increase the challenge I imposed a few rules for the project:
All characters should orient north to south (ie: no rotating the resulting map).*
All walks should be at least one mile.
Each character should come from a different neighborhood.
Initially I would not allow any editing of the resulting map image, but there were a few instances where I needed to edit, such as when the phone battery died mid walk, or the cell signal failed me, or I tacked extra streets to the walk.
Using MapMyWalk app to create letters and numbers. Week 1.
Though I meant for this project to help me cross off Pittsburgh streets, a scheduled trip to Florida had me taking the walks "on the road". This provided additional challenge to the project. Travel days ate up the majority of the day and daylight, so I walked as best I could in the airports.
Airport walk in Charlotte, walking a "dog".
Sadly Jacksonville, FL is not an inspiring place to walk. The neighborhoods are uninteresting housing developments and strip malls, streets are sparse on the landscape and usually consist of offshoot dead-ends and cul-de-sacs. However, there is a beach!
Day 24: Jacksonville Beach, FL
So here I proudly present the results of my January 2017 Fun-A-Day project: 31 walks spanning 2 states and 31 neighborhoods, including one beach and two airports, in temperatures ranging from a windchill low of 2° to a high of 79° through rain, snow, sun, clouds, and wind. "31 Walks January 2017 FunADay Pgh!"
* Due to the size of the "signature" on the beach I had to rotate to increase the walk to a viewable size.
And here is a better view of the accompanying photos from each day's walk.
31 Paint Chip Art Canvases
Using paint chips as my canvases allowed me the flexibility of experimenting with a variety of mediums each day.
Fun-A-Day, originally started by a group of Philly artists, is designed to start the year off right by committing to doing something fun and creative each and every day for one month in the dead of winter. The culmination of projects are then exhibited in an open gallery setting for all to marvel at and enjoy. The types of projects are only limited by the limits of our imaginations.
Salvaged this light slated for the dump to create this unique overhead fixture with details of far away places as documented by a travel photographer in the 70's.