Continuing to make new exquisite corpses. But I also had an idea that the same process could be applied to making images at an aspect ratio suitable for "standard" computer desktops (fractions of 1024x768 pixels). So we built a plumb crazy desktop called "Dresden Loved/for the genie/our eruptions/RIPped"

Come bear witness to the tomb of our creation...or is that womb? I'm always getting those confused--and this image is no exception! You can download and see for yourself at your monitor's best resolution:
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There were four collaborators on this piece: Miroje, Shae, me, and Julen, respectively. We each took a fourth of it (vertically--if you look closely you might be able to figure out where the transitions are and thus who did what).

I did the crazy part with the little idols and very disturbing sculpture image on the left side. This is perhaps one of the most terrifying yet fascinating sculptures I've ever seen or even imagined; and it depicts Britney Spears giving birth on a bear rug. The sculptor claims it is a monument to pro-life. I'm as pro-life as the next guy (if "the next guy" in this case is... let's say John Irving) but this thing is so astonishing it's hard to believe. Even in an era so degraded and bizarre as ours, this thing absolutely takes the cake. Naturally my retinas are scarred forever. Naturally I had to include images of it in my own art. And naturally in my work I depicted the hapless bear violently expelling vapors and other ejecta.

My latest visual arts outlet has been this cool online exquisite corpse site that I found. I feel like I have the most in common with the surrealists, historically speaking, and so I went looking for something that satisfies those impulses in the visual realm. I've participated in a couple of corpses: my part is the first slice, with the frogs; the next one was one where I had the last slice, with the fish; and most recently, this one where I had the second slice, with the angel and the wires and stuff. My favorite piece so far is this one, where I had the first slice because it comes together so beautifully! Check them out, I'm pretty pleased the way these are turning out and it's definitely feeling like a worthwhile project.