Playazul

After several days of construction projects in Batey #7 near Barahona, Deminican Republic, it was good to have a chance to unwind at Playazul. It was a stretch form building privvies.

mission trip

The video says it all.

deserted

Today's photograph is of the New Mexican desert. I don't know why I like the desert but I do. Perhaps it's the big sky and never ending sunshine. Or, perhaps , the stillness and quiet. I like to paint pictures of the desert and almost all of my new mono-prints are of the desert. It has irregular forms and almost monochromatic, simple and complicated. Rough and delicate. I like to recreate these feelings in my work.

Saturday

2day was good. The image is a collaboration of a long time. Almost 20 years ago I did a sketch of a motorcycle with a human heart in place of the regular motorcycle engine. I had been reading a magazine article about the poor quality of Harley Davidson motorcycles. The article described how a brand new Harley on the showroom floor would be leaking oil. Oil is the lifeblood of an engine. What if the puddle under the motorcycle was blood? But mechanical things don't leak puddles of blood. Then the engine must be biological. What typifies that more than the human heart. From the marker sketch came the idea, but it was years later before I found that Internet images and image processing programs allowed me to create the above image. The animation is just a bit of fun.

On another note, I rebuild the T Young Artwerks website. See it at www.tyoungartist.com This image is now on a T-shirt at http://www.cafepress.com/1391647.276028712

Memorial Day

Memorial day has just passed, a time to remember those who paid the supreme price. This video is homage to my uncle, John Henry Young. He was my fathers oldest brother. He had two brothers in WWI but only one returned.