Two projects I’m working on- once trickier than the other

This is the tricky one. It’s going to be what and “infinite stove” perhaps- an exploding, multiplying cooking surface. Not actually infinite- just growing, cubist. It’s hard to articulate. I’m trying to feel this out slowly. I don’t know how to make works and frying pans yet- hopefully I figure it out. How do you make tiny frying pans out of wood?

This is a classic project- I’m trying to build a living room painting. I know how to do it, I just have to develop it out. I’m going to layer the couch in a more ordered way to give the painting extra gravity. I might cut out the window in a future iteration- I’m not sure. My jigsaw broke and that’s made things a little harder/ slower.

Both these projects have potential. I’m still feeling out this line of paintings. I miss Medieval Pittsburgh, but it’s also nice to have new kinds of problems to work through.

I think the central question: Can these paintings transcend their content? I’d like them to be more than just wacky paintings of my house. I’d like them to really send people into a different headspace. I think at both art shows, people had a big experience because of the way the paintings worked tonally with each other. I’d like to do that again- I mean, I’d like to do it forever. Can I do it with objects in my house?

I work at a Seminary now, and the rhythm seems to be locking in. Hopefully I’ll be able to balance parenting/life stuff with forward art progress. Helps that it’s nicer out. Be good to make progress on these paintings.