Baby brains

This is a lithograph.  I don't remember where exactly I was going with it beyond it was based on a photo in an article I had to read for an anthropology class.  It was a photo from a study at Dartmouth of a baby with a wire cap on.  I meshed this photo with the Robert Jordan Wheel of Time series.  It is kind of a WTF piece.

Id ego stuff?

These were done with the mindset that there are dark things in our pasts and in our psyches.  That it is important to be aware of our inner monsters lest they take control over us.  I don't know if this would tie into FreudFreud's id ego thing.  Although much of Freud's stuff I believe turned out to be garbage.

I think I was just playing around with the mezzotint rocker on this one.

Colorful Tattooed Marla

Not crazy about what I did with the background on this.

My Ninja Love

This got into something.  I think maybe an online gallery thing.

Hi, guess where I am right now...

Psychobabble

And this is The Great

The Big or The Great?

The text in this is cursive Hebrew, which is incidently the older form and more properly Hebrew.  The alphabet letters used today on more formal things, and what everone associates as Hebrew, is actually Aramaic.  I am rusty on my Hebrew.  I am positive hagdolah can be translated as the big, but I think I was trying to say the great here.  As one of the models was nicknamed the great.

Damn Vipers

Marla

This model's real name is Emily, but she insisted on being called Marla.  As she was quite a fan of Fight Club.

Theater People

First Lithograph ever and the origin of the Alphabet

Looking back this is kind of a weird image.  The letter in the middle is supposed to be the Hebrew letter aleph.  The aleph is sort of a midpoint in the evolution between the cuneiform logogram for ox and our letter A.  In Sumerian the logogram was pronounced "gu", and in Akkadian "alpum".  The cuneiform is still very evident in our capital A.  It just needs to be flipped upside down and the triangle is the head of the ox and it's feet are the horns.  The term alphabet does actually come from Akkadian.  Alpum, ox, and bitum which means house.  The letter B corresponds to the logogram for bitum.  So our alphabet starts with the two most important things in Akkadian life.                                                                           In Judaism the aleph is a special letter because it doesn't have it's own sound.  It adopts the sound of the vowel marking underneath, usually an ah sound.  I think maybe this is sort of carry over from the Akkadian.  Because it was a sign that represented a word not a syllabic sound.  The tradition though is that the aleph could only be pronounced by G-d.  That is why when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down people went insane.  They could hear G-d pronouncing the aleph, and human ears and brains were not equipped to handle it.

Si Sommeil

This was a lithograph that came out too light, so did some water color over it and glued on tinfoil stars.  I wasn't really sleeping much then.  This was to express how tired I was.

Advertising

This was the advertising I did for my first exhibit.

Satan

I only did one of these.  I had put some paint thinner on this that is why it bled out like that.  I don't remember why I did that.

Maybe she liked the attention, but I felt bad for this model.  She was well endowed, and one guy decided to not draw her.  He just sat in a chair the entire time staring at her.  She only posed for us that one time.  I did some figure modeling when I was done and through school, mainly to see what it was like on their end.  It is a scary and nerve racking experience even when people are being professional about it.