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CW Cobalt

About Me

As a satirical, new media cartoonist/poet working three dimensionally, I use multiples, art objects, text, and performances to create a rich, quirky cartoon universe in which time travel is commonplace and artists function as part-time superheroes. Much in the same manner as "The Simpsons" or "The Flintstones" offer a collection of characters that coalesce as a satirical mirror of society, I repackage the world as an "alternate reality". This fictional world I create provides a backdrop on which I can employ popular narrative strategies and mass media techniques to explore, deconstruct and decode social behavior, historical assumptions, cultural stereotypes, and gender relations. Grassroots, self-published ephemera such as comic books, postcards, music CD’s, posters, bubblegum cards and installations serve as physical manifestations of the Cobaltian worldview. My site-specific, didactic, and semi-disposable art works are constructed with offbeat materials such as shag rugs, cheap Polaroid photos, fruit, underwear, old tape recorders, and colored cellophane. Visual presentations are often accompanied by live musical events and/or a CD soundtrack/concept album of thematically related songs. All of my elements in my exhibitions suggests larger narrative story arcs that need the imagination of the viewer to complete. I often work with a series of collaborators including artists, models, photographers, actors and musicians; as such, many of the works I produce are actually executed by a collective, using the "rock band" as a paradigm. Both my collaborators and myself adopt a variety of fictional identities within the work to help enhance the fictional world we create. Some of the characters I have portrayed include: a rock critic named Michael Brogan, a poet named Wayne Russell, an obnoxious singer named El Maximo, and a time traveler known as Cobalt. Participation from the viewer/audience via live events or process related interaction is also intrinsic to many Cobaltian projects; this brings the audience directly into contact with the invented Cobaltian world. Final products often involve listening to real-time audio elements or require actual handling of the piece in order to be fully experienced.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Artists, musicians, models and possible collaborators for conceptual art projects.

My Blog

Open Letter to the Ultra Luscious

I sent this email out to all my friends and foes today: To All of YOU, the ULTRA LUSCIOUS:I have created a new project called RADIO COBALT. Over the last few years, I've collaborated with multiple ban...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:30:00 GMT

I need a catchy name for my new project!!

A message to my artistically inclined friends.  I'm coming out of my art and social sabbatical, firing all cannons in Jan 2008. The first project I'm launching is the release of a song every week...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:06:00 GMT

Flat Astronaut

Stop drooling at the moon, Flat Astronaut. Stop. The ash on the surface/ dust unsettles as you watch TV. You want to touch the moon, to walk the Sea of Tranquility, sea of ash. Dead moon, dark moon, m...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:50:00 GMT

Eat and Shit Episode 2

Cobaltian Crapology Index : 2 Breakfast: Pancakes Lunch: Sandwich Mango Snack: Cookies & Cream Ice Cream Dinner: Fruit Loops
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:17:00 GMT

Eat and Shit Episode 1

Cobaltian Crapology Index : 7 Breakfast: Bagel with Cream Cheese Lunch: Arby's Roast Beef w/Cheddar, curly fries, coke Snack: M&M's Dinner: Pasta w/Vodka sauce
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:27:00 GMT

POOPY

Yes, yours truly, father of the hour is knee deep in poopie diapers, belching toddlers and spit-up rags. Emerson and Quentin are full time turnips in my little garden of Orange, and when I'm lucky I g...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:34:00 GMT

Not Much

JOB is very busy. 10 hour day today and just treading. I'm taking Monday off to go mix BELLS OF ORCHIDS, the number two Teeth album. So I'm listening to the material over and over in my car on th...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:43:00 GMT

Hare Event

The meathook who grinds chocolate inside herthe bright bum who blights the hot gum is brighterwho sands and feeds and gloats and bagshis big head is fun and bobs as it grabsthat blond wig is fetching ...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:54:00 GMT

Most Relaxing

Today was the most relaxing day I've had in months. I'm coming off a hideous cold, but it was still heavenly. Here's my schedule. 5:00 AM - 9:00 AM - wake up with Quentin. Play with blocks while liste...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:23:00 GMT

Fkuk I'm sick

Probably an upper resp infection. Probably should go see a doctor. Going to sleep now. Motivation level = - 1000000
Posted by on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:02:00 GMT