Regurgitating Progress (Print)

Internalizing all interactions with the physical world, I find myself obsessively overanalyzing and examining the struggles, anxieties, and chimerical wars held within the individual mind–those formidable pressures we place upon ourselves and the imaginative journeys of escape we are capable of taking outside our physical boundaries by venturing deep within the psyche. Beyond examination of the immediate human self, I’m fascinated by that unknown metaphysical connective magic that binds us all together as living beings. What unites us to our environment, to our world, our universe? What connects us to the past and future? Fascinating mysteries are these uncertain spaces between matter and energy, and the mysticism that travels betwixt the two. I was born and raised in Reno, Nevada and have been a San Francisco/Bay Area dweller since 2005 after finishing art school in Denver, Colorado and moving around various places that offered either oceans or mountains to play amidst. Thanks for checking out my anxiety garden! Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints. Steal this Art was created as way to bring artists and art-lovers on a budget, together. Every day a new print goes up for sale at a ridiculously low price. It’s so low, that you are basically stealing it. To eliminate the high cost of custom framing and to keep it budget friendly, each print is sized to fit in a standard sized frame. The prints are super limited and only for sale for 24 hours. Once they sell out, or time’s up, they will never be available to steal again. Artists typically don’t make too much money by selling prints. They have to pay up front for printing them, and then it takes a while to sell, which means it takes a while to recover the costs of producing them and decreases their profits. At Steal this Art, we handle producing the art prints on-demand, and they are only sold for one day. This keeps costs low, and eliminates the overhead incurred by artists, so all they need to worry about are the profits.