Amor Fati XVIII {Eros or Agape} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati XVIII {Eros or Agape}

Eternal Return XXIV {Da-Sein} (Mixed media and watercolor on card stock)

Eternal Return XXIV {Da-Sein} (front)

Eternal Return XXIV {Da-Sein}(back)

Amor Fati XVII {Winter Take Nothing} (acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati XVII {Winter Take Nothing}

Eternal Return XXIII {The Habit of Saying "I"} (Watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XXIII {The Habit of Saying "I"}

Eternal Return XXII {Creation of the New} (watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XXII {Creation of the New} 

Eternal Return XX {Punishment} (Watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XX {Punishment}

Amor Fati XVI {Telos} (acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati XVI {Telos}

Eternal Return XIX {The 33rd Year} (Watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XIX {The 33rd Year} 

Amor Fati XV {The Great Noon} (acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati XV {The Great Noon}

Eternal Return XVIII {Festival Religion} (watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XVIII {Festival Religion} 

Amor Fati XIV {Liberté} (Acrylic and Mixed Media on Cardboard)

Amor Fati XIV {Liberté}

Eternal Return XVII {Agnus Dei} (watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XVII {Agnus Dei}

Eternal Return XVI {Water of Life} (watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XVI {Water of Life}

Amor Fati XIII

Amor Fati XIII

Another of the Amor Fati series that I'm not at all happy with. However, these failed attempts are valuable for working through issues of space, color, and line. Lessons learned.

Eternal Return XV {flows} (watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XV {flows}

Amor Fati XII {Heliocentrism} (Acrylic and Mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati XII {Heliocentrism}

Eternal Return XIV {The Dark Night of the Soul} (mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XIV {The Dark Night of the Soul}

Amor Fati VII {Sartre Triptych; right panel} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati VII {Sartre Triptych; right panel}

The final panel of the Sartre Triptych. You can see the center and left panels here and here.

Eternal Return XIII {Tristes Tropiques} (Watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XIII {Tristes Tropiques}

Amor Fati XI {I is Another} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati XI {I is Another}

This is one of the earliest pieces in the Amor Fati series and one of the first works that I was really happy about. It combines my love of found objects, maps, flags, and art history, all of which I draw from visually to create these works. 

Eternal Return XII {Existence precedes Essence} (Watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return XII {Existence precedes Essence}

Eternal Return XI {The Arrogance of Reason} (mixed media and watercolor on card stock)

Eternal Return XI [The Arrogance of Reason}

Amor Fati X (Mixed media and acrylic on cardboard)

Amor Fati X

I'm not at all happy with this part of the Amor Fati series. The colors are all wrong and I didn't have any sort of conceptual or design unity in mind while making; it's just kind of thrown together. That said, there are elements that I like. I wish I would have put those two Polaroids of Louisville industrial architecture to better use. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of this piece, part of the goal of the Amor Fati series is to embrace all the attempts as part of a larger narrative that is given meaning not despite its failure but because of it and how it creates something new.

Eternal Return X {Siren Song} (mixed media and watercolor on card stock)

Eternal Return X

I'm clearly having fun with these little mail art cards. Salvaging these library book due date cards from my last job at Purdue all those years ago has really paid off. 

Eternal Return IX {Superficial out of Profundity} (watercolor and mixed media on card stock}

Eternal Return IX

Eternal Return VIII {The obscure object of desire} (watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return VIII

Amor Fati VII {Sartre Triptych; left panel} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati VII (left panel)

This is another panel in the Sartre triptych I've been working on. Here is the center panel. I'll be posting the right panel in a couple of days. 

Eternal Return VII (watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return VII

Amor Fati IX {In Search of Lost Time} (mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati IX {In Search of Lost Time} 

Eternal Return VI {paradoxes of liberalism} (mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return VI {paradoxes of liberalism}

Eternal Return V (mixed media and watercolor on card stock)

Eternal Return V

Amor Fati VIII {Transference} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati VIII {Transference} 

Eternal Return IV (Mixed media and watercolor on card stock)

Eternal Return IV

Amor Fati VII {Sartre Triptych; center panel} (Acrylic and mixed media on canvas)

Amor Fati VII {Sartre Triptych; center panel}

Amor Fati VI {Can anything good come out of Nazareth?} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati VI {Can anything good come out of Nazareth?}

Eternal Return III (Watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return III

Postage stamps are tiny artworks in their own right. I try to allow them to speak.

Amor Fati V {Capital: The Barbaric Anachronism} (mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati V {Capital: The Barbaric Anachronism}

Eternal Return II (watercolor and mixed media on card stock)

Eternal Return II

To make the sensible circulate. Flows of images. 

Amor Fati IV {Twilight of the Idols} (acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati IV {Twilight of the Idols}

Amor Fati III {The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music} (acrylic and mixed media on canvas)

Amor Fati III {The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music}

Artists don't borrow; they steal.

Amor Fati II {Nietzsche is Dead} (Acrylic and mixed media on cardboard)

Amor Fati II {Nietzsche is Dead}

Dread and death meet the affirmation of the eternal return. Cleveland also makes an appearance. 

Amor Fati I {The World is an Egg} (mixed media and acrylic on cardboard)

Amor Fati I {The World is an Egg}