gays mexicanos

Here are a few more Mexican gay pins. All the images are vintage and were used to scale. I typed the txts and glued them on to the images.

organic

this is part of a series I did a few months ago, my organic series. There are several pieces. I plan to develop this idea further. The pictures I used were from an early 70s photo album that I found. These were created using a photocopier, a typewriter and acrylic paint.

a look back

I created these pieces using images from vintage books. The background is made from pages from a book that I painted over. I clipped the images and coupled them with some captions I selected. As usual, matching the right caption with the image was the hardest part. I love the way these turned out.

these charming men

I took a silkcreening class this past semester and it was a great experience. I learned a lot and also got to make some very cool stuff. This was my first design. We were told to pick something simple. I used an image I saw in a 1967 physical fitness book. I stared at the image for a while until the caption came to my head. ‘This Charming Man’ is one of my favorite Smiths songs. I made a number of shirts and a few tote bags as well. I don't have the screen anymore, so I probably won't be using this design again in the future.

lucha candles

I found some vintage wrestling photographs during my last visit to Mexico City’s Lagunilla Street Market. What struck me the most about the photographs was their amateur look, most of them looked like they could have been taken at people’s homes. I bought the photographs and decided to create some art with them. I decorated these candles using photocopies of those images. Each candle is unique, only a few of each image will be made. All my work is manual - I only used a photocopier, scissors and glue for this project.

gong

Here are a set of pins I made for my friend Hugo and his Gong event that happened in Rome this September. I used vintage images that I thought would go with the gong theme. I used the typewriter for the text, manually cutting the individual letters to glue on to the images. I wanted the pins to depict something unusual and a bit strange, but with a sense of humor. I mailed a set of these pins to Rome so they could pass them out during the event. It’s great to know that these pins are residing somewhere in Rome now.

Cosmos

There’s plenty of work I’ve done lately that I need to share. Here are some that I worked on recently. The images are from a series of books I acquired, which involve children visiting a number of different work places. Farms, post offices, factories, etc. I had all these images for a while but was not sure what text to associate with them. Once I stumbled onto a spiritual book I had my answer. The innocence and ambivalence of the pictures were a perfect match to the spiritual wisdom.