Nipple Experiment

Collage, made last summer.
Prints and t-shirts

Talkative

Collage, made last summer.
Prints, etc.

Yearbook

Yearbook, 2013
Prints and t-shirts

Society 6 Sale!

Society 6 is having a sale: $5 off every item, and free worldwide shipping through Dec. 14. I have a bunch of collages and other pieces there, which can be made as prints or t-shirts. Use this code when ordering.

Coulrophobia

Coulrophobia, collage, 2014

Serpent Coctkail

T-shirts and prints here.

Rose Bust

Collage, made last Spring.
Prints and t-shirts

Cranbrook Holga

These photos were shot on the campus of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in February, 1998. I was a student there at the time, working on my MFA in Photography. These were shot with a toy Holga camera, borrowed from one of my classmates.

Shooting Pool

Collage of vintage and new photos, wallpaper, and old paper.

Prints and t-shirts

Codex

Prints and t-shirts from Society 6

Bowling for Pigeons

T-shirts and prints here.

Bugged

Bugged, collage on paper, 2014.
T-shirts and prints here.

Radioactivland

Radioactivland, 2014
collage on paper
t-shirts and prints

Gymnastics

Gymnastics, 2014
Collage on paper

prints and t-shirts

Backbone

Backbone, 2014
collage on paper

t-shirts and prints

Circulatory

Collage, made last June.

Prints and t-shirts

Redwood

Collage on a vintage postcard.
Prints and t-shirts

Milk & Eggs

A fresh collage, made a couple of days ago.
T-shirts and prints available here.

Miscommunication

T-shirts and Prints

Argumentation

Argumentation, 2014
Collage on paper
Prints and shirts, etc. from Society 6

NEW

Collage on paper, made about a month ago.

Prints and t-shirts

Devon Ave.

I spent a couple of hours today shooting along Devon Ave. on Chicago's far north side. Devon is a really interesting street. Best known as an Indian/Pakistani neighborhood, it's actually a multicultural area, with Russian, eastern European and Islamic businesses scattered among the Indian and Pakistani markets and restaurants.
Most of my shooting today was with my vintage flipped-lens Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera. I shot color film, so it has to go to a lab for developing. If those turn out, I may post some later. I had my digital camera with me as well, and here are some shots I made with it.

I Am

Instant film lift of a digital photographic image.

Prints and t-shirts

Adam in Toronto

Collage on a vintage postcard, made last year.
Prints and shirts of this collage

Montreal and Quebec Panoramas

I vacationed recently in Montreal and Quebec City. While there, I made several photographic panoramic scenes. I like the collaged look of these, and intentionally do not make any attempt to seamlessly join them. While some people call this type of photographic work 'joiners' or 'Hockneyesque' (after artist David Hockney, who has been making work like this for decades), I usually call them panoramas. Here's the best of the panoramas I made on this trip.

The Terrace Dufferin and Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City.

The Montreal skyline, seen from Parc du Mont Royal.

View of the St. Lawrence Seaway from the Governor-General's residence in La Citedelle.

 View of Parc du Mont Royal.

Place Royale, Quebec City.

Rue St-John, Quebec City.

Quebec City.

Jump!

T shirts and prints

Sullen

Prints and t-shirts.

Domestic Testing

Collage on paper, 2014.
Prints and t-shirts

Riding the Train

On vacation, shot while on a train somewhere between Quebec City and Montreal. 

Ham Head

Ham Head, 2014.
Prints/t-shirts

Mating Dance

Collage on old postcard.
Prints and t-shirts on Society 6

I'm Back! (Kind Of)

After taking a very long (1.5 year) break from this blog, and shutting down my other blog, I've decided to revive this one. For now, I plan on posting the art-related content of You Fill Me With Inertia, my Tumblr. I use my Tumblr page to continue the photo a day idea from my other blog, along with old postcards, odd old ads and photos, interesting art, and other odds and ends.  I describe it as “absurdity, ephemera, and art”. This blog, for now, will be just the art, and none of the other stuff. Later, I may do a few longer posts, and resume posting about various technical details about artmaking as I have in the past.

So, the few of you who have followed me here can expect semi-regular updates, for now.

Here's where you can find me online:

Lightbender-My work, work of others, discussions of art and artmaking
You Fill Me With Inertia-My Tumblr: absurdity, ephemera, and art
FLickr- My work, arranged in albums
Facebook-My artist Facebook page.
Society 6-Purchase prints, t-shirts, etc. of my work here.

Inactive sites:
A Photo A Day-Mo longer active, but the blog is still up as an archive
Etsy-nothing there now, but I may try it again at some point.

Feeding Time

Feeding Time on Society 6