Filed under: Art | Tags: 2015, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper, Rats
“…MOST Unwanted Rodents”
ink, colored pencil, and various stains on found paper
8 1/2″ x 11″
2015
(Yo Ray!.. Sorry for um, ‘finding’ this paper… hanging in the staircase of your building.)
Filed under: Art, Back In The Days, Ramblings, Uncategorized | Tags: 1980's, 2012, 2013, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Boston, Drawings, Elementary School, Free Drawing Paper, Graph Paper, Not Guilty, NYC, Penmanship, Punishments, The ways I punish myself, The Ways I Torture Myself, Writings
So a while back someone gave me a blank book filled with graph paper. Seemed like some interesting paper to draw on. Hopefully it would get me over the “hang up” I have with that paper.. it is what my 4th grade teacher, Ms. Casey, made us use for our “Punishments”.
Do something wrong, and have to write your punishment.. on graph paper. One letter, per square… over and over… until the page was done.
Mess up once?… Start over.
Hand cramping?.. Massage it for 30 seconds, then keep going.
Not learn the lesson?.. Do 5 sheets.
Still not learn?.. The whole class had to do em.
And after they were all done and got a quick check for accuracy?… Ripped in pieces and thrown away.
I usually got good grades in elementary school, except for… conduct, effort and… penmanship. So I OFTEN had this one…
This was another common one…
“I Will Not Talk”
Decades later I realized that some of these punishments had really stuck. And not always in a good way. So maybe the same techniques could be used to “unpunish” myself or or for things that I would consider more positive uses.
“A Skateboard Is Not A Battle Ax”
Oh, and how can I forget? For next level shit we would have to write ONE WORD PER SQUARE…
I spent a lot of time almost filling that book. But eventually decided to stop punishing myself…
Filed under: Art | Tags: Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Disconnected, Disconnection Notice, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper
Literally disconnected these daze. No phone. And fine with it…
“Disconnection Notice #2″
pen and marker on disconnection notice
3.5″ x 6.75”
2014
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2014, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Disconnected, Disconnection Notice, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper
” Disconnection Notice (#1)”
ink on paper
6.75″ x 7″
2014
Filed under: Art | Tags: Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Collage, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper, Mixed Media
“ACE OF SPADES”
mixed media (pen, found paper, paint sample cards, playing cards)
4″ x 6″
2014
Filed under: Art | Tags: "I Can't Breath", #myNYPD, 2014, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, BEHR, BEHR Paints, Brooklyn, Chokehold, Collaborations, Doh! They Did It Again, Eric Garner, Forced Collaborations, FREE Art, Free Drawing Paper, Fuck the NYPD, Fuck The Police, Fucking Cops, Home Depot, New York City, New York Shitty, NYC, NYPD, NYPD Murderers, Police State, R.I.P. Eric Garner, Staten Island, Zoo York City
===================== R.I.P. ERIC GARNER =====================
(Forced) Collaborative with BEHR Paints released today*. Grab one for FREE at (involuntarily) participating Home Depots near you**…
“‘Fuck The NYPD’ Blue”
colored pencil and marker on BEHR color sample cards
3″ x 6″
2014
* While supplies last. (No need to ask Home Depot employees for help locating these in the store; if you can’t find them in the obvious location, you’re too late.)
** IF you are near Nostrand Ave/ Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Filed under: Art | Tags: 2014, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Drawings, For, Free Drawing Paper, M.T.A., My Bad, Sorry
“Sorry For When I Wasn’t The Person You Needed Me To Be.”
pen and marker on found paper
8 1/2″ x 11″
2014
the original piece of paper, pre-“art”:
Filed under: Art | Tags: Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper, Handstyles, Pangram, Pangrams, Typography
My typographic/pangramic* piece for the Flip The Script” Book Release + Art Show…
“Pack My Bags (with Krylon, Five Tequila Jugs, Haze, Dust, + Xanax)”
marker on found paper
11″ x 17″
2013
* pangram : a sentence that includes all the letters of the alphabet.
Filed under: Art | Tags: 2012, Alone, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Art Basel, Drawings, Florida, Free Drawing Paper, Miami
One that I started while in a crowded South Beach weekly rental crash-pad apartment during Art Basel 2012, and finished when I got back…
“Winter/ Big Plans”
pen, marker, found paper
8″ x 10″
2012
Filed under: Art | Tags: 2012, Alone, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper, Hell and High Water, Hurricane Sandy
A new piece I did for a Hurricane Sandy relief art show…
“Hell and High Water”
pen on reconstructed found paper
11″ x 17″
2012
Can be seen or purchased at the “RELIEF” Art Show TONIGHT ONLY. All proceeds from the show go to help out people affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Filed under: Art | Tags: 2012, Alone, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Broken Bones, Broken Hand, Free Drawing Paper, Paintings
I couldn’t get much art done the past summer. Big reason… broken hand. Somedays I really felt like chewing it off..
“The Hand That Fed Me”
acrylics on reconstructed hospital bills/paperwork
14 11/2″ x 24″ x 1 3/4″
2012
Filed under: Art | Tags: 2012, Alone, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper
“The People Vs…”
pen on rearranged court papers and lawyer receipts
8.5″ x 11″
2012
Filed under: Art | Tags: 2012, Alone, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper
“A Warrant Was Issued…”
pen on rearranged court papers and lawyer receipts
7″ x 10″
2012
Filed under: Art | Tags: 2012, Alone, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Drawings, Free Drawing Paper
“Keys To The City”
pen on found paper
6″ x 9″
2012