Turning Letters into Colors to Create a Visual Language Color surrounds us daily, influencing emotions, guiding our decisions, and shaping the way we interpret the world. Colors can signal warnings—like yellow caution signs or red stop lights—and even represent deep cultural meanings. However, the meanings we assign to color often […]
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I have been working with AI tools to bring the many early animation ideas to life. I have been using these tool to help with everything from scripting and storyboarding to video, narration, sound effects, and music. What once would have taken months or even years to develop, can now […]
This body of work continues with my exploration of the written language, which has been the theme for many of my works (see the Color Alphabet and Shredded Paper series). This new work will be focused on the emoji as an essential paralinguistic element in our modern form of computer mediated […]
Melodie #20 time lapseDigital Video, 720p 1min This is the first time lapse video I created of my crayon art process using the Melodie series (Melodie #20). This video was uploaded in 2012 to my website and was soon picked up and went viral several months later. This video has been seen […]
Art in America June 1999Digital Video, 720p 6min This body of digital work uses the magazine Art in America as its starting point. This publication was the definitive guide to contemporary art in America in its time. It could make or break an emerging artist’s career with just a few words. The writers, […]
Art in America May 2003Digital Video, 720p 7min This body of digital work uses the magazine Art in America as its starting point. This publication was the definitive guide to contemporary art in America in its time. It could make or break an emerging artist’s career with just a few words. The writers, […]
Art in America February 1997Digital Video, 720p 5min This body of digital work uses the magazine Art in America as its starting point. This publication was the definitive guide to contemporary art in America in its time. It could make or break an emerging artist’s career with just a few words. The writers, […]
Daejeon Museum Gardens22,680 hand cast encaustic crayons15 individual panels (35.25 x 58.5in) This 15 panel work is composed of ~22,500 individually placed hand-cast encaustic crayons and is based on photo that I took in the gardens of the Daejeon Art Museum during my time in South Korea. My use of […]
Julia Robinson (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons Julia Robinson (1919-1985) was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a father who ran a machine tool and equipment business and a schoolteacher mother. Due to scarlet and rheumatic fevers, she missed two years of school as a child and progressed through four […]
David Blackwell (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons David Blackwell (1919-2010) was born in Illinois to a father who worked in the railroad business and a homemaker mother. He recalled that, as a student in an integrated school, he was unaware of discrimination against African-Americans during his childhood. At the […]
Kurt Gödel (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons Kurt Gödel (1906 – 1978) was born in what is now Brno, Czech Republic. As a child, his nickname was Herr Warum (Mr. Why, in German), and due to his voracious curiosity, he excelled in all subjects in school. Incredibly, the theorems […]
John von Neumann Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons John von Neumann (1903-1957) was born in Budapest, Hungary to wealthy, educated parents who surrounded him with books and governesses. Already at the age of six, he was able to divide long strings of numbers in his head like a […]
In September of 2016, artist Christian Faur traveled to Prague at the invitation of Ambassador Schapiro. The Ambassador and his wife Tamar Neuberger selected Faur’s work Parrish (2012), for the Art in Embassies exhibition at their Residence. Parrish consists of four panels of hand cast encaustic crayons. Faur begins his […]
Christian Faur was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for FY 2021. The award was peer recognition of a creative artist’s body of work that exemplifies their specific discipline and advances the larger artistic community. These awards support artists’ growth and development and recognize their work in Ohio […]
Bertrand Russell (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a quintessential Renaissance man. A Welshman gifted in mathematics as well as philosophy, writing, history, politics, and social theory, he hailed from a long line of British aristocracy. His godfather was the philosopher/economist John Stuart Mill, and […]
My first commercially designed product is finally on Etsy and available for sale. This one of a kind paper originated from my time in Berlin in 2017, when I fell in love with all the street art throughout the city. Each of the photos I took is compelling in its […]
Olga Ladyzhenskaya (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004) was born in Kologriv, Russia and, along with her sisters, grew up devotedly studying under her father, who was a math teacher. Having descended from Russian nobility and known as an intellectual, he was executed by Stalin’s regime […]
Kintsug Cup 1 (Kintsugi Series) –~6,200 Hand cast encaustic crayons & 24k gold leaf23.5″x23.5″ (4 panels) Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using gold or other precious metals to enhance rather than disguise the cracks. I have taken this ancient technique and have applied it to my newest crayon work. […]
Georg Cantor (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons Georg Cantor (1845-1918) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. When he was eleven, his family moved to Germany where he excelled at both mathematics and the violin. After earning a PhD at the University of Berlin, he took a position at […]
Mary Cartwright (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons Mary Cartwright (1900-1998) was a mathematician in England when women were just beginning to break into the male-dominated field. Despite her tendency to play down her achievements and contributions in the world of mathematics, she was eventually knighted, becoming Dame Mary […]
Srinivasa Ramanujan (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayon Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) was born a Hindu in southeastern India. During his school years, he really only wanted to work on mathematical problems, so it was difficult for him to pass any of his other courses. After taking mostly math classes, […]
David Hilbert (Mathematician Series) –36×36”Melted hand cast encaustic crayons David Hilbert (1862-1943) was born in Prussia in what is today the city of Kaliningrad, Russia. His mother indulged in math and astronomy as hobbies, and this influence guided David’s career path. After attending college and teaching at the university in […]
15-panel, hand cast encaustic crayons 60” x 37″ inches 2018 Crayon work based on extreme close-up of Rose of Sharon photo. Part of my “Flower Series” crayon work.
34×34 -(9 panels) 13,158 hand cast encaustic crayons Using Pinterest and it’s feature to find similar images based on the cropped selection of the photo selected, I assemble and then created the image below using a several different features from many photos to create a completely new face.
-(12 panels ) ~16,800 hand cast encaustic crayons 47 x 35.5 Unframed, 2018 A new “Flower Series” work, based on my still life photos. Inspired by 18th Century French needlework and embroidery.