geoffreyowenmiller

Blane De St. Croix II

After the success of the first sculpture, Blane asked me to be a lead assistant for a project at Socrates Sculpture Park. This was another project being created in an outdoor space, though this time the weather was often just above freezing. Blane sourced foam from the WORLD TRADE CENTER (check) which was glued together in a larger block which was then cut into using a chain saw and foam scrapers. This was then covered in a latex stucco and then painted to create the look of real rock, much like a massive model train set. 

I created some digital models to reduce the amount of waste foam being blown in the East River, but Blane was worried about adding too many unknowns to a process perpetually plagued with issues of weather, materials, and equipment failures. To give an example, we went through boxes of rubber-coated work gloves applying the rough stucco coating, and still ended up with extensively exfoliated palms. 

(Image from his website)

Allan McCollum

Installed and worked in the warehouse.

(Image by Allan McCollum)

Tom Friedman

Our graduate school had a chance to work with Tom Friedman's studio in 309482309. He was working on a retrospective and book and asked us to come up with ideas for a print that would accompany the book. Working on paintings of explosions at the time, I came up with the idea to layer semi-transparent images of all his works to create an image that looked like something between a ball of energy and an explosion. Tom liked the idea and printed a series of posters. 

Include picture from book.

Frontier Restaurant.

A longtime favorite restaurant any time I visited Albuquerque. Knowing the owner had a great passion for John Wayne, I created a logo that reflected this in 199999, as a class project in a graphic design class. 

Subsistence Americana

I worked with jeweler JC Ortiz, better known as sanctuary_city_rings, to create a series of junk food wearables. We made a series of work available here: