Here is some very, disjointed other shit I've been doing. Maybe it all fits together, maybe it's best to keep things separate. Little kids, could fit with the murders, maybe? Probably not.

Tammy Z's newish work.

I guess this is the most comprehensive stuff I've been doing recently - they are portraits of child murderers. I know, Tammy Darkstuff, still in action. I'm not done with the top one, Graham Young, and very much "in progress" with this work. Very much, mostly building a house with LB and not working - but these are something I want to continue until I have a comfortable set.

I was inspired to start working on this after the Joker massacre in Colorado this summer. Although James Holmes, wasn't a kid - I started thinking about how he so desperately wanted to be an ICON. Or was crazy. I'm also thinking about ME wanting to have a baby and the possibility of getting some kind of devil child - like the little boy in the Tin Drum. So here, since I'm still in a bit of a rut technically with these cartoons  - for good or bad - I thought I could cartoon kid killers. Commenting on, of course, a history of this going on, but also a problem that I believe will only amplify over time. Also thinking a lot about the portrait, color and line - amplifying and distorting what a photograph can do in a portrait.

I'm curious about a couple things:

1.When you look at these images, what do you see? What's intriguing, where are you lost?
2. Are you conscious of their photographic roots? This is something I'm trying to stress more and more, but know there is room to push the work.
3. Do you want to know more facts about the person?
4. Should I include these with drawings of my nieces, which I have also been making? I guess I'll post a few of those.

THANKS!

These are a few charts I've been working on since graduation... I'm going to show them near Boston in the spring, possibly organized by time frame?

Mary Tyler Moore 1970-1977

90210, 1990-2000 (first 5 seasons, I am currently watching season 9 and it's SO BAD)

Ellen, 1994-1998 (all seasons)

Friends, 1994-2004

Sex & The City, 1998-2004

Gossip Girl (2007-present, chart unfinished)