The Band Studio

The Band Studio. Richmond. Virginia. Detroit Transit Railroad. Music.

The boys are recording a new album this spring. Is it an even trade, this London thing? Somehow, I don't think so... hmmm. the album I didn't play on...

You can listen to our first album here ( or, from iTunes).

You can see loads of my paintings on the walls. There's even one of my sculptures (from 1996)...

If the walls of that studio could speak....

The Dream A Train Dreams When It's Dreaming of Itself

The Dream A Train Dreams When It's Dreaming of Itself.

Painted on the wall outside of Detroit Transit Railroad's studio (my rock band).

Trains seem to have such a self-inflated opinion of themselves.

But, don't we all dream in self-personification?

This is the entrance to DTR's studio.

The Round Table

The Round Table. This painting no longer exists. I painted some weird nothingness on the bottom and then the nothingness consumed the all. So, I threw it out. Now, I think that I should have kept it...

Girl, Cross-Dimensional View

Girl, Cross-Dimensional View. I never can tell how someone will react when I draw them the way that comes naturally... Holly seemed to be really cool about it, which is nice. Personally, I would take it as a compliment if someone used me to springboard into more fundamental things... Anyway. There's nothing that brings out true personality than to show someone a picture that you've drawn of them.

Ocean Village at Dawn

Ocean Village at Dawn. A landscape, transformed by the new light of the sunrise... What is visible to the eye is just a small portion of existence. Reality is often just a product of perception.

Teapot with Particles

Teapot with Particles. Vibrations in space affect the real thing.

Hot Chocolate Espresso Steam Blocks the View of a Van Obscuring the Front End of a Compact Automobile

Hot Chocolate Espresso Steam Blocks the View of a Van Obscuring the Front End of a Compact Automobile. The last time I used a lined notebook, this drawing is an excellent example of when I used the geometric foundations of light and reality as objects in my compositions.

Boy, Lost in Space

Boy Lost in Space. In the middle of my particle phase, I was having trouble articulating what I was seeing... It became difficult to justify the overt geometry of the particles of light that began to appear in my paintings and drawings... Everything had become too cerebral... The fabric of reality began to de-thread, revealing the nature of its' braid, and I had only began to internalize things...

A Rooster

A rooster, from the summer of 2005.

Two Bottles, Particle View

Two bottles, so unassuming... light surrounding them... light revealing them.... light creating them... The depiction of light as an object was one of the major premises of my particle series. Here, light reveals it's duality by behaving as both particle and wave. The two empty bottles are chosen because they are indeed so nondescript...

Ocean Waves II

Ocean Waves II. Just before the new year, a beach in Maryland in late 2005... I had just come back from Prague and was seeing things in a new way. Overlapping dimensions intersecting different planes of reality, particles of light and energy floating between them all, the waves in the Atlantic ocean were revealing a new insight. Crazy me, I didn't even realize that I was drawing in the same sketchbook as I had drawn in two years before. I found the first drawing ("Ocean Waves I") later on that night...

The Language of Love

Here, the dialogue is articulated as particles separating a man from his lust. He sees her with all of his eyes. Hard for him to speak, he manages to sing. This is a piece from a time where I was gluing things to other things, breaking barriers of object and space.