Ryan's Art from the Passed

Here is some of my art fromt the passed couple of years...well I guess the passed 5 years or so...

Feel free to copy these images if you like but please do not alter them in any way, if you want them altered email me and we'll talk about it...

Cross: the impressioned metal surface. These come from a project involving impression that I had to do for a class. We burned the metal plate with acid in order to get the desired shapes and then coated it with ink and ran it over paper. Cross: the image on paper.

The Birth of a Demon: a sphere out of which is hatching a clawed creature from the depths of hell or somewhere else. The things that come out of the onknown can seem frightening but are they always? This is graphite on line paper, I drew it in class one day.

Heart In a Box: a piece that is acrilic on paper, one of my favorites actually. I was feeling particularly romantic at the time and yet it had occured to me that for some this experience is confining, yet for others it's a confinment that isn't lamented but felt as secure rather than trapped.

Easter: a cocoon waits to give new life to the world. I drew this at the Easter Vigil at my church one year. I was thinking about how the resurrection of Christ had brought hope anew to the world and how it symbolizes a new beginning. Like Christ from the tomb the butterfly breaks from its cocoon a new being. The old dead but the new even more miraculous and bringing even greater wonder to our world. This was drawn on paper with graphite.

Lizard:A foreign landscape in graphite where a dragon searches for food? Maybe for freedom?

And the Spider Said to the Fly...: acrilic on paper. One that I liked making several different coloured versions of. A spider hangs from its silk waiting for its dinner.

There's Somethign Crawling Up Your Leg:This piece was done in a bit of hast when I needed something to screen onto my jeans between classes because I had spilt some paint on them and didn't want to wawlk around with a glob formation on my leg. Apparently I figured a bug would look better...at the time it made sense.

The Tree of Life: ink on paper, this piece is one that took me a long time to do. I was thinking about the different ideas that the sight of a bare tree can generate. Life waiting to bloom, or death having done its work are only two things that this could represent for the viewer. What does it mean for you?