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The code that moves the pen makes the image…

November 5, 2014 By Mike Lyon

I had this confusing idea about somehow showing my code in a drawing. The drawing would be a self-portrait and the text that piled up to communicate the image would be the code that the pen followed in order to draw the text that made the image. A very circular process. You can read about […]

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First textual drawings

November 1, 2014 By Mike Lyon

I spent a few months working out a kind of self-referential process I had in mind. The idea I had was to build images from text. The first step was to code general subroutines to draw text characters which could be scaled and drawn by CNC. I decided to code an outline typeface and I […]

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Hanging Lamps

September 11, 2014 By Mike Lyon

My studio assistant (the late Nico Gogan / Carrie Riehl) and I used the CNC to drill two holes for the wire stem in each of hundreds of leaf-shapes and cut them out from a frosted acrylic sheet. Then I took them home and heated them on baking sheets in our oven and, wearing oven […]

Filed Under: Featured, Lighting

Several large watery landscape drawings output as archival prints

June 18, 2014 By Mike Lyon

I also generated machine drawing toolpaths for several watery landscapes which Dolphin Printing output as archival prints.

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“Sniffing Armpit” 40 x 27 inches machine drawing & archival print

June 13, 2014 By Mike Lyon

In late May and early June I produced a 40 x 27 inch drawing in black and white ink pen on paper I’d painted gray. The drawing is of Carrie, Johanna, and Ross standing on my platform and I’ve always called it “Sniffing Armpit” because Johanna kept urging Carrie to “sniff my armpit” and Carrie, […]

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“Carrie Americana” 80 x 52 inches drawing

June 4, 2014 By Mike Lyon

In January, 2014 my then studio assistant, Carrie Riehl, walked in one morning wearing shorts (in January?) and showing off her new 2nd hand red, white, and blue leather jacket and I said, “let’s go photograph you right now!” In May I generated sixty drawing layers of red, yellow, blue, black, and white squiggles intended to produce a drawing […]

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“Estelle and Morton” 52 x 74.5 inches drawing in 5 ink colors on panel

April 8, 2014 By Mike Lyon

After Mom died, Dad moved back to Kansas City from Aspen where he’d lived since the late 1970’s. He invited several of his old friends to join him at my studio and then lunch at the vegan restaurant across the street, Cafe Gratitude. Morton Sosland is one of those old friends and joined us at studio […]

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“Hal” 31.25 x 22.75 inches pen and ink drawing in five colors

March 3, 2014 By Mike Lyon

Hal Wert teaches History at Kansas City Art Institute. Hal was Vice President of KCAI in 1988 when students there asked me to teach them karate and self defense. I made an appointment and met Hal (he was wearing a business suit and tie). I asked whether the school would allow me to teach and […]

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more slotted acrylic disks and rings

February 16, 2014 By Mike Lyon

Cutting acrylic disks for assemblage during January and February, 2014

Filed Under: Featured, Sculpture

“3 Robes” 84 x 45 inches watercolors and ink on paper

January 23, 2014 By Mike Lyon

Carrie, Ross, and Johanna in yukata (summer kimono). Here I was playing with black and white ink over intense colors. The colors were pigment dispersions in water – the robe and body colors were brushed onto the paper register with the eventual drawing, then protected with a cut-out mylar mask while the background colors were […]

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