Sculpture and Pop Music

I'm not a big fan of pop music but OK Go's new video, Needing/Getting, may change that.
It's elaborate, funny, and perfect for a Friday

It's also an enormous sculpture.

So how do they play this song on stage?

Behind the scenes making of Needing/Getting

Sculpture and Paper Cuts

Simple paper cuts, 12,000 of them, animate this charming video for singer Rosh Ritter. The video is shown as it was shot, with no special effects added in post production. Directed by Erez Horovitz



Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home from Josh Ritter on Vimeo.


"Love Is Making Its Way Back Home" is featured on Josh Ritter's new EP, Bringing In The Darlings

Sculpture and Still Green Thoughts

My sculpture, Still Thoughts, is growning one with nature. 

Still Thoughts by Patrick Gracewood ©2012

Still Thoughts by Patrick Gracewood ©201

This casting was a reject. The mold surface was flawed and didn't completly capture the texture of my original cedar wood carving. So I put him in a far part of the garden, on the woodland walk, under the deep shade of the sequoia sempervivens.

Moss is slowly covering the entire surface and I've come to love it, including its flaws. I've come to see him as not a so subltle lesson on chasing perfection. He's so settled there, the garden is quieter around him.

Maybe I should change the name, for this particular one, to Still Green Thoughts.

Sculpture and Guerrrilla Art.

Or is this Dinner Theatre?

Friday night is date night, we have dinner at Koji's. This time we were seated at the sushi bar in front of this darling paper sushi shop. I love how changes of scale in sculpture, bigger or smaller, draw you in.

Everything there but people so I thought I'd make some while we waited for our dinner.

I drew them on the paper chopstick covers. Folding them gave a base to stand up behind the counter.

David had dealt with grumpy staff at work all day. That inspired me to draw a giant unhappy fish as one of the chefs behind the counter. Unlike that sushi chef, it doesn't take much to make me happy. This sillyness got David laughing too.

 The fun part was doing this quietly, only the waitress noticed and said "No servers?"
  I'll add them next visit.

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Here's an unedited stealth video that shows how tiny the shop really is.

Sculpture and Andrew Thomas Huang

I'm not a fan of beautiful Nihilism.
It's a genre I dislike. It's too easy to be chic and brutal, tons of style but no humor or kindness.

While watching Solipsis, a video by Andrew Thomas Huang, I found myself in two emotional modes.
One was was delighted by Huang and company's amazing use of colors, textures and environments.
The other was repelled by the narrative. (See above.)

SOLIPSIST from Andrew Huang on Vimeo.

Saw one online comment that said: "I'm way too sober to be watching this."
Your opinion?

Sculpture and Animation

Take something flat and static, like a book, make it dance and move and evoke many stories and you have sculpture that is an advertisement for Moleskine.


 Dutch artist Rogier Wieland  is graphic and audiovisual designer based in The Hague, the Netherlands. He  made this clever paper animation for Moleskine, it features their smallest day planner.

Sculpture and Matisse

It takes courage to bloom where you are planted.

"The artist must summon all his energy,


his sincerity, and the greatest modesty


in order to shatter the old cliches


that come so easily to hand while working,


which can suffocate the little flower that does not come,


ever,


the way one expects."


A wonderful quote by Henri Matisse, from the book, Wabi Sabi The Art Of Everyday Life by Diane Durston.