update

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to give you all a brief explanation of why my blog and website have been a bit neglected this past year or so.
Well, as some of you may know, on December 1st 2010 I was hit by a car. I wont go into details but as a result of this accident I have been living in chronic pain. This has made my secular work as well as my painting work very difficult for me to maintain on even a "barely getting by" level. Anyway, gone are the days when I could work my job for ten hours then come home and paint for seven hours six days a week.
I also endured in that same year a personal loss that left me a hollow wreck of a man and frankly it was all I could do to keep my self from giving up on living. Between my physical pain and my emotional desolation I have had a very difficult climb to the point where I can even entertain the idea of painting. I don't expect anyone to fully understand and I'm certainly not asking for advice, this is just a letter to all of you to explain my absence.
At any rate, I am going to try and focus on some smaller works on paper in order to try and get my zest for life and work back. The smaller scale is possible with my physical injuries unlike the larger oil paintings I used to do. But don't worry, I will still be doing larger oils, just much much more slowly.
I did two smaller pieces today which I was very excited to scan and post. But, the universe being what it is, my scanner is terminally broken after my little hiatus so I have had to resort to second rate snap shots. Haha, its funny how when you try and lift your head from the mud and muck and broken glass and gravel and do something worthwhile it is stopped at the gate.

Anyway I will repost these two little paintings at a later date when I have properly documented them. I just felt compelled to post a little update for those of you that may be interested as to my status of late.
As always: Much love, I hope you are well out there and do stay in touch.

c

"View of the Expanding Abstract Gardens"
mixed media on paper
3.5 x 8 inches
02-18-2012 nyc

"Woman Leaning Forward in a Chair Disintegrating"
mixed media on paper
3.5 x 8 inches
02-18-2012 nyc

in california twice in a month

second greetings!

crystal cove Ca.

Props to Jennifer S. photographer

greetings from California

Happy New Year from lovely California. I made a new friend.

Autumn Falls is selected in online competition!

Hi Everyone,
I entered Autumn Falls in the curatenyc.org online competition and from the 1500+ or so entries the painting was selected to be a part of an online gallery!

Please check out the selected work at Elisa Contemporary Art online gallery.

Thanks very much to Brian and Danny at Curate NYC as well as Lisa from ELISA CONTEMPORARY ART for all their hard work.

I hope the new year finds you well.

-christopher

Space IS full of cyclic expansion {gravity meets 'dark energy'}

UNKNOWN FORCES CLEAR:

The Truth About Grey (Gray).

The truth is that some
Want warm soft grey.


And Others want cold


The truth is Its all grey

Luck is in being mobile.

Dim light and in that-
Our details reside.

Our

details.




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low low down with bright light

big city girls lose their minds (detail of sketch 2010)



Thoughts on gravity and particle dispersment
(4:00pm brooklyn)


Planets are set on their side by means of unimaginable impacts back in time.
The sky is full of mystery which we exist for and dwell upon.
And here in our oasis we live, love, kill and die. Pushing ever towards our mystifying destiny.
And in that paradise we step with our misguided graces. As people we move so fast.


The cosmos is rich and full of particles which run on their own rules. They move through us always, even now as you read. We are of particle dispersment through the ages. Gravity helps this process over the envelope of time. It is a folded envelope with particles from the beginning of these exquisite dramas.

From macroscopic to microscopic we flow in spite of ourselves in this expansive and ironically constrictive eddy. In this burbling river of time and coincidences we wander.
Simple bubbles we are in this stream.

Enjoy your convex nature until you burst.

And I for my part, as a shell of a man will float with my empty buoyancy into this vortex.

She was seeing things in the night as we drove across the badlands. Animals or ghosts, I saw them too! Moving so fast and shimmering. And later I had frozen hands trying to work the key against the lock. I should have known then what was coming.

strange dream

strange dream 1a sketch 'clocks falling back'


11-06-11