Archive for the 'Fine Art' Category

A yearly cycle makes it’s mark

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Fellow Studio 1482 members Greg Betza, Despina Georgiadis, Dominick Santise and I have been working collectively on a series of prints and promotions titled Seasons of 1482. Winter concludes our project for 2010. My piece for Winter is titled: “winter’s gift”. For more about why and how I got there  click here.

Holiday’s among us…

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Diary of a marionette maker

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

Puppetry is an ancient form of performance. Some historians claim that they pre-date actors in theatre. There is evidence that they were used in Egypt as early as 2000 BC when string-operated figures of wood were manipulated to perform the action of kneading bread, and other string controlled objects. Above is a marionette I stumbled across [...]

The mosque next door

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

My opinion is just that, an opinion. Whether or not there’s ‘a right’ or some think it ‘wise’ to build a mosque two blocks from where the World Trade Center crumbled – the timing is awful. There are pivotal moments in history that require time and space for those who experience its chaos to process, accept, and [...]

Music on paper

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

..I once read that Pythagoras is credited with having discovered the physical relationship between mass and sound, (otherwise known as music), and that this relationship (expressible as ratios) is essentially what led to Galileo’s revolutionary discoveries in physics. Reading this intrigued me …could the relationship between mass and sound be the same as the relationship between [...]

a member of Studio 1482