....derrick wesley mcnew.... http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com stuff i make Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:41:56 +0000 en hourly 1 Pedal-Powered Generators http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/pedal-powered-generators/ http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/pedal-powered-generators/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:42:00 +0000 admin http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/?p=343  ]]>  

Generator Closeup Generator Power Pack b full Generator Power Pack b overview ]]> http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/pedal-powered-generators/feed/ 0 Nothing for Sale http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/nothing-for-sale/ http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/nothing-for-sale/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:35:48 +0000 admin http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/?p=334 Using the visual languages of sales literature and advertisements this piece engages the viewer’s sense of commercialism. By placing text at multiple levels and skewing the baselines of each individual word, the piece becomes a moving and polysemous field where words can mingle with more than one meaning. The onlooker’s position and angle in relation to the field triggers certain words to come forward, either by their physical placement or by the temperature of the color which accompanies them. This allows the separate planes to intermingle. Much like rapidly passing billboards along a highway or advertisements placed on the outside of mass transit, this piece presents the viewer with a temporal impact. Unlike said advertisements, this piece is absent of the object of commercialism, making it less invasive to our sense of choice (to buy or not to buy) while still driving at our enculturated impulse to consume (in this case, the search for meaning.) For the viewers who do stop to view the piece, a reward of human flaw is revealed in the craftsmanship. The colors (primaries) and the style (text-based; futura font) appear to be born from a medium driven and advanced by machines, yet the painterly style of the lettering (blotchy coloring, uneven lines) connects the viewer to the artist as a hand-maker.

 

 

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]]> http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/death-march/feed/ 0 Sabina Rose Memorial Gardens http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/sabina-rose-memorial-gardens/ http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/sabina-rose-memorial-gardens/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:46:23 +0000 admin http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/?p=297 In Memory of Sabina Rose O’Donnell

Art direction and background painted by DWM

Letters painted by NoseGo.

 

 

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Sacred Tree Crossing of energy paths Svetvieta entrance Svetvieta Svetvieta box Svetvieta altar and meditation chairs ]]> http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/svetvieta-or-sacred-place/feed/ 0 !!!OMG GMO!!! Mutant http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/omg-gmo-mutant/ http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/omg-gmo-mutant/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:35:06 +0000 admin http://www.derrickwesleymcnew.com/?p=385 The !!!OMG GMO!!! mutant made to bring awareness to the use of genetically modified foods and products. Shown here in both the 2011 and (revamped and disguised) 2012 Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby.

 

Sculptural direction by Mat Shiley

Paint direction by Derrick Wesley McNew

hard labor and devotion by Rebekah Armstrong, Janet Kotz, Courtney Dozor,

Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby - 001 Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby - 045 the Mutant by unknown photographer

photos by Sarah Clark Stuart 2011

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