Artist Tips
Tips of artistic insight that I want to share with those who are willing to listen.
Donde Jugaran Los Niños? How to prepare a Burning Man Installation Proposal 2012
Jan 30th
In an age of global media, the divisions and lines that are drawn between the rich and poor, the left and the right, liberals and conservatives, etc. are highly exaggerated, and profusely fabricated in order to divide and manipulate the masses. From a very young age people in our society are wrought with messages embedded in popular media that create ideological polarization between different ethnic and cultural groups. Since the advent of the radio, television, and printing press in the early 1900′s(and most recently computers and the internet), these media innovations have become common place in homes, businesses, and institutions around the world. All forms of popular media whose purpose is to entertain and inform have intricately concealed messages of division, greed, vanity and despair into movies, sitcoms, commercials, sports events, cop dramas, and so called news networks like Fox, BBC, and CNN just to name a few.
We are acutely aware of the effect that the media has on people’s ideological perspectives on topics such as race, class, and gender issues. It is estimated that children between the ages of 2-8 watch television an average of 30 plus hours per week. While in the past most of the the TV viewing was done under family supervision the need for a two income household has driven the middle class to work, forcing children to stay at home unsupervised. Our kids are increasingly being exposed to programming that is presenting them with a very narrow view of life drowned in violence, political ideologies, stereotypes, fake culture, and consumption. In this way future generations are being programed to consume all products, material and ideological. This is a problem that affects people from all geographic, social, and cultural spectrums. This installation’s purpose is to raise awareness to this epidemic of endemic information that is being delivered to children in all corners of the world by corporate sponsors & networks who scientifically understand the human psyche too well and use it to subvert it and co-opt it for it’s own means.
Inside the installation the visitors will find photos of common family events like weddings, birthdays, and religious ceremonies. The kids in these photos will be in multicultural settings like barmitzvah’s, communions, quinciañeras, in indian, caucasian, or african families and so on. I wish to convey to the viewer that this is a global issue and that we are a global family. It is our responsibility as adults in our society to guide children through an increasingly perilous world filled with highly efficient propaganda, mis information, and ignorance. We need to ask our selves “Where will the children play?”
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“I am not saying that we are living the end of Art: We are living the end of the Idea of Modern Art”
Nov 10th
“Today…Modern Art is beginning to lose its powers of negation. For some years now its rejections have been ritual repetitions: rebellion has turned into procedure, criticism into rhetoric, transgression into ceremony. Negation is no longer creative. I am not saying that we are living the end of Art: We are living the end of the Idea of Modern Art.”
-Octavio Paz
Picture of the Day!
Jul 20th

A Peek of my recent Nude Self Portrait.
I chose to do a nude self portrait because I wanted to challenge myself. My first thought was to make a “Provocative” scene with some beautiful T & A. I even had a hot photo reference lined up… but after much internal debate I realized that doing a nude self portrait is a step that must be overcome/achieved by most artists in their lifetime. So instead of doing some gratuitous sex scene I decided to do a much more introspective piece. I may not be touching myself but I am allowing the viewer into my private space… I also tried to push the limits of the style I have been developing in the last couple of years. I am surprised how much it looks like a painting, yet it definitely has its own quality. You can do some wonders with a Camera, a Wacom Tablet and Photoshop.
Look for this whole image either soon here or in the main site under the current works page.
-Vico
Picture of the Day!
Jul 15th

Farmers Market Arcata Ca
Lord Knows.
-Vico
Every one is Artistic. Think about it.
Jul 3rd
Everyone of us is artistic. Think about it. Science is an art, so is mathematics, and cooking! can’t forget about cooking, its a wonderful art form. There is a prevalent idea in our society that art is an abstract concept for most when in reality art flows through every single one of us. One does not need to call him or herself an “artist” to be an artist. Most people don’t get to live the life of a professional artist but that shouldn’t stop everyone from exercising their talents. Whether your talent is music, writing, cooking, athletic etc. exercise it and it will make you a happier person…
This could get real long but I will stop for here now… I would like input from anyone who is inclined to add to this thought.
- Vico






































