A few recent highlights from my "Post-It" collection:

My kid's Independence Day drawings, inspired by Cai Guo-Qiang:

A few highlights from today's visit to the LA County Museum:

@ the Berkeley Art Museum

"On earth, the chilling reality of these reconnaissance technologies is that they can image nearly any building, locate individuals across the globe, and record conversations as a means to track and monitor suspicious activities. Their very existence encroaches on other frontiers--the border between public and private, the social pact between government and citizenry, the line between legal and illegal, moral and immoral."

My first two paintings of the summer:

Claire Joyce (click here)

Salvation Mountain (click here)

(Pictures from Jesse's recent road trip.)

@ the CLUI now (click here)

Garbage is the effluent of our consumption, and it flows backwards through the landscape of Los Angeles. Unlike liquid wastes, which drain downslope to the sea, the tiny tributaries of trash, from millions of homesteads, collected by a fleet of thousands of trucks circulating in constant motion, hauling to nodes of sorting, distribution, reuse, and, finally disposal, flow up the canyons and crevices to the edge of the basin.