I am submitting this to apply for a grant from the Santo Foundation (http://www.santofoundation.org/). Along with my website, https://www.flickr.com/photos/134053354@N03/albums, and my resume (very limited, recent undergrad, two jobs, one three years ago, each worked for under 3 months) this is my entire application.
These pictures are all for sale. Everything on my website. Most of it is archival. Please read the descriptions carefully, they are very important.
Here is a little about myself and my work. I am applying to NCSAD in Nova Scotia, and hope to attend if admitted, for their graduate program. I currently work part time as a dishwasher, as I'd like to continue working on what I've outlined here. I enjoy reading philosophy, but am just getting introduced to it. I am very interested in Nietzsche and Foucault, and am reading Nietzsche and Philosophy by Deleuze, various collected shorter Foucault essays and collected excerpts meant to introduce one to his philosophy, and have begun to read The Order of Things by him as well. I believe that how Foucault and Nietzsche order knowledge, by "finding the manner in which values attain their values", Nietzsche called it genealogy and Foucault archaeology, may relate to a general consensus of Wittgenstein interpretations of "language games" (I haven't read it, but hope to; I saw that Foucault sometimes greatly scrutinizes the particular uses of certain repeating words in his exegeses, so I know such coinage is only soundbite, since I haven't read it).
All of this was potentiated by recognizing that there were some very successful artists that were very literate, namely Rackstraw Downes, Donald Judd, Motherwell, Richard Serra, and Nauman. The first four all had bachelors in heavy reading class, English Literature for Downes and Serra, and Philosophy for Judd and Motherwell. Nauman studied to be a mathematician for a while, and many times in interviews he mentions reading as a major part of his work; like he sits in the studio and reads a book. I think he reads a whole bunch. Also, he says he was very interested in Wittgenstein early in his career. These artists are really dry, still interesting and beautiful things came from all of them, but they're very rational, I'd say. Rackstraw is the least so of the bunch.
And artists like Paul Klee, Phillip Guston, Jasper Johns, and Keith Haring seem so much more Nietzschian. Judd and minimalism and academicism seems so much more "pure reason", or something along those lines. Klee and Guston were much more playful than the other artists, very poetic artists.
Most generally, I mean to use what I've described in the description of the picture titled "Crude Examples, see description" as a spectrum whose bounds and rules of organization can be dictated by specific characteristics of these artists. As such, the "structural gradient" that I describe in the description of "Crude Examples", at one extreme may have playful design while the other end of the gradient has a much more rigid design; that is the most general, but never fear, for there is great diversity within those bounds.
I draw inspiration from my collaborator with whom I live, http://howlingmoondog.tumblr.com/, Anne of Green Gables, comedians, philosophical structure, films, trends around me, plants, etc. The world is bursting forth with content. As my girlfriend say "Given what Paul Klee writes, he does not ask you to consider how to draw, but what will happen if you draw."