Tag: Joseph Stodgel

My Final Painting of 2013 – Tantric Manna Dip

Holistic Science, Painting

Tantric Manna Dip sTake a Tantric Manna Dip… or something like that. This here is my last piece of the last year, as it is now a bright and sunny day in the fresh field of 2014. I was encouraged and commissioned to make this piece for a long time friend and supporter, and I chose to work along the lines of the geometric pieces / compositions that I started playing with in College and continued with earlier in the summer of 2013. The geometry is a fusion piece made of a central octahedron nestled inside of a star tetrahedron and surrounded by the more-so spherical likes of the cuboctahedron or as Buckminster Fuller used to call it, the Vector Equilibrium. Enjoy the view and 2014!

Some New Pieces on Wood

Collaboration, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture

Eye Face Alohi sEye Face Board sBird Face s Cross Wood s I have grown to love the simple work of a permanent marker on a piece of wood. Here are some recent creations: a couple with eyes and faces and the other built around a deceased bee that I found and pinned to a small board. The bee slowly disintegrated while the piece as a whole grew in complexity and became a cross floating above a wave and mist of some sort. Thank you to Alohi for modeling one of the mask pieces.

Elementet Collaboration

Collaboration, Holistic Science, Painting, Sculpture

Tet Back2 s

This piece has been hanging in from the trees in our backyard for some time now. It was completed back in 2009 as a collaborative project between my friend Cha Maul and I. During my time at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Valley I built four triangular canvases on which I painted an interpretation of the four elements – water, air, earth and fire. Later I unstretched the canvases and in the Santa Fe Awning shop, overlapped the edges and placed a series of metal eye-holes. These were then wrapped with some bungee cordage and attached to a scrap-metal tetrahedron structure that Cha welded. The result is a metal tetrahedron with an elemental painting for each face. Although one couldn’t easily roll it as a die, I have tried to lift it up so that one may see all of the faces.

– Joseph Stodgel, 12/27/13