Halloween is the last good day in Kansas City before the cold starts creeping into these Texas bones.  But I like the geography of Kansas City, I like looking at a map and knowing that I'm at the center, or pretty close, at least.  The center has been an important part of what I do, which is art, hear that google?  Google, so I suppose its fitting for the time being.  The piece which I hope to tour is also a piece which I'm aiming to install permanantly in one lucky location.  Pool is its working title, and it's part of a new direction I'm taking with the perspective work, working lighter, changing materials, and using landscape for both its color and place.   It's essentially a reflecting pool, not unlike Washington Memorial or the pool which leads to the Taj Mahal.  Or a puddle. Controlling and shaping its perimeter ungrounds it from three dimensional reality, and it becomes something more than a puddle or a reflecting pool.  It becomes
	Water's inherent reflective qualities are amplified in proportion to the angle of incidence, so when I create anamorphic drawings using pools of water,  the results are these intense patches of blue seemingly imposed on the landscape, or whatever the water happens to be reflecting.   ___ I've started another project which has the potential to grow into a lifetime mess of work that I'm creating for myself.  I am creating installations and composing photographs using the forms and colors of  available landscapes and structures to make flags.  This is largely in the planning stages, but I've begun to make a few of these flags as you can see above, if Japan and Bangladesh can count.  The end goal in this project is to not only make these, but to install these in their geographically proper context.   ___ Flags of Our World is a map I've constructed which displays several hundred flags, nation's flags, city flags, provincial and state flags, and it also includes many miscelaneous flags.  I original began constructing this to aid in outlining regions, to potentially route a tour where I could plausibly install more than one of these in one journey. But it also became an object in and of itself, a fascintating look at the similarities and distinctions as you move from one region to the next.  The provinicial Japanese and Chinese flags each have colorful palette with a strong sense for design.  In the flags of Africa, you see a strong European influence in structure with earthy reds yellows and brown tones.  I begin to wonder how these flags which stand for identity are reflected in the visual sensibilities of the youth. Below you can Navigate through an early draft of Flags of Our World.  It started out as a task to help me organize and understand all of these flags, but I might make some posters.

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