Last Saturday I had the honor of being a participating artist in the 6th Annual Transformer Gallery Silent Auction and Benefit, held at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington DC.  To my relief, my piece, “Equivalence” actually sold (and six bids above the starting bid at that!). Pretty stoked that I at least made back what I paid for in materials and framing.  Oh, and then there’s the whole “somebody actually liked my work enough to pay money for it” which is always a nice feeling.

Anyway, just wanted to put the red alert out that I have in fact posted the piece that went into the auction along with another, more personal work under the featured projects section. Take a gander if / when you have the inclination.  I have a few more projects / goings-on that I’ll be highlighting here in due time, once I catch my breath from the whirlwind that was October.

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On a related art note..and, while this isn’t a matter of immediate significance as such, I wanted to speak briefly about a particular website that has become a personal favorite of mine over the course of the year, (named rather curiously) But Does it Float?.  Ostensibly, it takes the typical ‘blog’ format of presentation, with a more or less daily curation of images pertaining to fine art, design, anthropology, illustration, architecture and moving images.

To its credit, the site is short on (read: devoid of) criticism and manages to say a lot with a little.  The minimalist black text on white background does a good job of recreating that similar feeling one gets walking into a sterile, white-walled gallery, complete with tiny museum plaques (set in Georgia, no less).  At any rate, I’ve quite enjoyed the thoughtful selection of artwork and the pairing of rather enigmatic fragments of prose derived from assorted literary, scientific and philosophical texts to comprise the title for a given post, leaving the viewer to fill in the gaps.  It is a refreshing and satiating respite from the usual blog junk out there and offers a bit more focus than the time-killing-eye-candy-wormhole nature of sites like dropular and ffffound.