ETHER^RA STUDIO

Another view of the Folktek side of my studio containing the following Folktek pieces :

• FeedScape
• Time Scape
• Golden Keys
• TimeScape Sequencer
• Subharmonic Field
• Pluton
• Oranger
• Insectarium Bug

See my YouTube videos to see some of this gear in action!

DEVIANT SOUND MACHINES : FOLKTEK

ETHER^RA STUDIO


Arius and Ben are Folktek, makers of wonderous sound/art object/instruments capable of producing everything from sonic abrasion to the lyrical. My studio is outfitted with a collection of these incredible machines of aural desire.

WILLFUL SIMPLICITY

(acrylic/collage on wood 12" x 16")

Another painting inspired by Goya's "Los Caprichios," specifically "El Sueno de Razon Produce Monstros"...The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Indeed!!! The text repeated on the upper left/right reads "embrace willfully stupid simplicity" as the participants shield themselves from the light of reason...sounds like recent political discourse. Check out Goya's "Disasters of War" and think about our current dystopian world...and then try to get a good night sleep?

A TUMBLE OF WORDS
(acrylic/press-type on wood 4" x 6")

This is another small piece with distressed geometry and a single line of text...we are presented with unending sonic abrasion, a Tower of Babel. Very little of this "communication" is meaningful or compelling in any way...None of it is poetry except to perhaps an Italian Futurist painter!

SMALL PAINTINGS ON WOOD

ARRIVAL FROM NO PLACE

(acrylic/press-type on wood 4" x 6")

When presented with a number of small pieces of found-wood, I produced a few paintings that allowed the entrance of color!

EXPECTATION, ANXIETY, PURCHASE

(acrylic/collage on wood 9" x 12")

Corporation subtlely influence the choices that we make EVERY day. This painting, showing a bucolic setting, hints at the heart of the so-called American Dream: a never-ending series of "choices" thrust upon us with no end in sight...and NO JOY as well!...David Lynch got it right! We've got the freedom to chase the carrot till our demographic is no longer a viable financial proposition for corporations to invest in.

The White Series

POPULAR WISDOM

(acrylic/collage on wood 6.5" x 10")

Once again,

my take on the

oblivion of conformity,

dystopian

"normality."