Strange Forecast, acrylic, 30×24″, $400

Strata #2, acrylic and china marker, 24×24″, $300

Dancing Clover, acrylic, 28×24″, $300

This painting went very quickly.

Identity, acrylic, 24×24″, $300

Strata #1, acrylic, 24×24″, $300

Four Acre Spread, acrylic, 24×24″, $250

I’ve been experimenting recently with some nonobjective abstract painting, an area of painting I’ve shied away from until now [it's hard to get it right and if you do, you're left with something of questionable interest to others - to this I reason: if it interests me, it's bound to interest someone else out there]. Palpable texture and interesting shapes along with dark, inquisitive line [or at least the potential for these things] are what interest me most about abstract painting.

As for the title, it is a play on the phrase “Garbage in, garbage out” - this from wikipedia: “This phrase is a sardonic comment on the human tendency to accept the results from computer systems with unquestioning faith. An example of this blind-faith GIGO mentality is to believe that your work, stored in a computer, will be there whenever you need it even though you never perform data backup or virus scan.”

Garbage in, Gospel out, acrylic and china marker, 34×30″, $600

So I just thought I’d take a moment to show off my geeky side and talk about how much I’ve been enjoying playing around with ubuntu. I’ve been dual-booting along with XP, and I’ve just about got it configured to where it’s quite usable on a daily basis [I'm typing this blog post from within ubuntu].

Backing up for a moment [and keeping things as simple as possible]: linux is an operating system [like MS Windows is an OS] and ubuntu is a distribution of linux [like Windows XP is a distribution of MS Windows]. Unlike Windows, most linux distributions are free to dowload and install [...and alter and customize and share with friends and even sell to others] - and so it is with ubuntu. Dual-booting means I’ve got both ubuntu and windows on my computer [on different partitions of my hard drive] and I can choose which one I want to use on boot-up.

Bottom line: I wouldn’t hesitate to suggest this as a daily operating system for my mom [how's that for confidence?] - though she is fairly adept around computers… One caveat, however: I would need to spend a little extra configuration time upfront so that everything works as it should. That said, it’s rock-solid, full-featured and open source.