Frank was my roomie in undergrad and the guy I got into any trouble with. We have since parted ways but still keep in touch quite often. He has revamped his website from the ground up and warrants a mention here if not solely for the crazy background on his home page but more importantly for his amazing prints/paintings he's been creating.
From his website:
"My work investigates the distortions of language and logic, by looking at ways in which technology can influence perception. It does this by exploring instinct and irrational comprehension. When I take the everyday person as my subject it is put through a process in which its features are distorted, suppressed, or intensified in the service of expressing something beneath or behind the observable surface. That is, something which is best implied in the slippage between the recognizable and what is unexplained or mysterious.
In my work there exists a fascination with the relationships between private and public, reality and fiction, object and representation, and also the dynamic interplay between the individual and structures or masses. Some of my processes include: disrupting narrative flow, piling up disjointed fragments, incorporating references to prior images and texts, isolating figures to emphasize their role as personifications of concepts, and using images with multiple associations to draw attention to many layers of meaning and the necessity of interpretation. All these means serve to frustrate a straightforward reception of the image, which would consume the work for the story told, or the information conveyed."
From his website:
"My work investigates the distortions of language and logic, by looking at ways in which technology can influence perception. It does this by exploring instinct and irrational comprehension. When I take the everyday person as my subject it is put through a process in which its features are distorted, suppressed, or intensified in the service of expressing something beneath or behind the observable surface. That is, something which is best implied in the slippage between the recognizable and what is unexplained or mysterious.
In my work there exists a fascination with the relationships between private and public, reality and fiction, object and representation, and also the dynamic interplay between the individual and structures or masses. Some of my processes include: disrupting narrative flow, piling up disjointed fragments, incorporating references to prior images and texts, isolating figures to emphasize their role as personifications of concepts, and using images with multiple associations to draw attention to many layers of meaning and the necessity of interpretation. All these means serve to frustrate a straightforward reception of the image, which would consume the work for the story told, or the information conveyed."
just like you said in your informaion for the picture, you created special pieces that stand out in the picture. the different colors spark intrest in the work. the pointy edges are a focus point. i tried looking to where they were pointing. followed different lines to guide me to something, but i didn't get anything. what i didn't understand, was the picture of the guy at the bottom of the work.
The picture of the guy at the bottom is his grandfather. I am not sure of the relationship between his grandfather, the deer and the flowers...but the word sans means not, which gives me clues.