Night Light

Here is an installation in the works with some friends at a favorite canoe and swimming spot from the summer. I am trying to focus my work in this natural surround while still exploring the idea of lift, float, light, and surroundings. This installation is highlighted with 150 tea candles strung together with a wooden flotation device installed at sunset.

Research

A video piece following my nephew during special times year to year, now with a younger brother, many things can become part of this growing video installation.




Ceramic Van Installation studies. Caravan across a large painted map.





Friends Library Install: Ever Growing Usable Library

Email sent out to participants:

Hey,
I'm working on a new installation that will travel with me my entire life. The premise to this piece is extremely simple, yet emotionally driven. Those invited to participate in this piece have been, are, or I can see a future being friends with. What you need to do is extremely simple. I'm looking for the top 5-8 books you've read in your life thus far. You can send me an email, call me, text me... with this. Try and follow this format

your name
your age:
Books:
1. Title-author. Sentence about the book

2…
3…

4…

5…

Include a sentence about it as well if you would like to give me some insight

When I receive your response, I will go on Amazon and order the books and add them to my library. If you choose not to participate that’s fine, but let me know so I can create the glossary accordingly.

Thanks

Rupert Gregory

I can see the future, and it is bright

For a quick update, i have applied to one school and only one school to be an art teacher.  I was looking for a future, not just a job.  Through this fun application of shaving, getting dressed up for interviews, and explaining everything i stand for, i impressed the faculty and staff.  Through 3 interviews and 60 applicants, i am now the high school art teacher at Manheim Central.  I will be replacing my long time mentor who has taught me for more then 10 years through my life.  I will be teaching with one of my good friends and amazing teachers, Dan Cook.

I have a studio in my garage, am buying a house, and for all i know, living the life i've always dreamed of.  So, philly/lancaster, i will not be going anywhere for quite sometime.  If you are an artist and interested in giving a guest lecture, please let me know.  I will be running a weekly artist lecture series for my students and would love to have fellow peers and artists come and inspire my students with their love for art and life.

Be in touch, link me to your work, tell me how life is, call me.  I want to know what the future holds for all those around.

A huge thanks to the faculty, friends, and family who have supported me through my dream.  I owe you everything.

Home?

Where is home?  i am constantly unsure of where i belong.  I exist for certain amounts of time in certain areas, but it's not home.  I was raised in Lancaster, but is this home?  I struggle to find the true context of the here and now that i live.  As i sleep on floors, beds, tents, wherever, i never feel at home.   I am beginning to correlate the relative 'home' feeling with the surroundings i find myself in.  The things that make me feel at home comes to be a list of places, people, and things...

-friends

-family

-shorty

-my computer

-my job

-spain

-austria

things that i wish i could merge into one place and call home.  However impossible i wish to one day sit on a beach with her in my arms, knowing this is home.  Or maybe on a mountain or a city.

For now... this is home