Sketching
This piece is prepared for a project for Dr. Barbara Tversky’s Visual Explanations course in collaboration with Andrea Kantrowitz. Full citations to follow.
Threads: a spinning fable
This work was created for Dr. Ruth Vinz’s course on Postmodern Textual Practices. We were asked to draft a postmodern take on a fairy tale or myth. At the same time we’d been mapping out our definition of what postmodernism means. Mine includes a lot of developments in science and mathematics and music – sampling…
A Cosmology of Ideas Text
A little text about the creation of the two versions of a cosmology of ideas, and a few more samples of the sketches/scribbles/notes that led to each piece. See here for Version 1. And here for Version Two. – N
A Cosmology of Ideas V2
A second version of the cosmology of ideas idea – in slightly more traditional comic book format – in 2 pages. See here for Version 1. And here for a textual explanation with sketches. – N
Cosmology of Ideas
A sort of comic, prepared for a catalog for a forthcoming exhibition at Macy Gallery at Teachers College. The subject of the show is studio practices, and so i focused on how ideas are generated, or born, in my notebook. It was in part shaped by a conversation with my dad on how stars form.…
Little Boxes (Final Version)
Created in conjunction with Graeme Sullivan’s “Visual Arts Research” class at TC. Closely related to the recent “Bi(bli)ography” as well as a spiritual cousin to “In the Box/Out of the Box” from some time ago. – Nick Little Boxes is also designed to be put together as a cube – or little box itself. Arrows…
Bi(Bli)ography – Final Version
At last – the final version of “Bi(Bli)ography: A Life of Privilege.” This replaces previous, in-progress versions. I welcome your feedback. – Nick
Bi(bli)ography – text only
Ok, it’s been a long time since there’s been a new piece. Not because i’ve not been working on new projects, but rather because of how each project has grown as i’ve delved into it. This is the case with the following – intended to be a two-page, quick essay, it blew up fractal-like as…
Old and New again
I’m in the process of adding some older short comics I made to this archive. To preserve the continuity of when they were created, they appear earlier in the blog posts, even though they’ve only been added now. – Nick
Children’s Artistic Development Two
The sequel to the first installment on artistic development in children prepared for Dr. Judith Burton’s class on that subject. – Nick (You can find the initial one here)