I don’t know about you, but my Google Reader boasts a ridiculous 98 subscriptions, which makes it difficult to keep up with the flood of inspiring images that I find on various blogs. I used to bookmark everything and even gave del.icio.us a try, but both things became bloated with the amount of links I had and I could never find specific items if I wanted to go back to them.

Lo and behold, Tumblr! I know that Tumblr is meant to be a simple way to blog, but I’ve found it works spectacularly as a method of visual bookmarking. With Tumblr, I can post photos of things that I would like to remember accompanied by a link or a short description. Scrolling through a long list of my photo posts is a lot easier than trying to read a long list of links or searching through tags that I don’t remember to include with a link. What it all comes down to is that, while I’ve been terrible at keeping up with this particular part of the blogosphere, I’ve been pretty decent at updating my Tumblr page, Lost & Found. Seeing as most of the things on my Tumblr page are relevant to my artwork / my visual vocabularly, I thought it would be good to post them here and elaborate on why I find them attractive.

The first installment from my Tumblr archives highlights three artists that I keep going back to: Cody Hoyt, Benjamin Edwards and Joey Piziali.

CODY HOYT

I stumbled upon Cody Hoyt at a time when I was thinking about using text in my work. Coincidentally, at that time, I was reworking a screenprint of scrambled text and Hoyt’s prints and drawings were on my mind. My work ended up more Wayne White, but I still can’t stop thinking about these. I love the 3D quality to the type, the transparency, the layering…it all builds up to this intense chaos. 

BENJAMIN EDWARDS

With all the geometric shapes, map references and architectural qualities, it’s hard not to see why this is relevant to my work. I can see myself working more towards this direction with the cut&paste technique I was using with some of my Longitude prints. I love how these prints create such a complex environment but are still made up of simple geometric elements. If I had endless time and resources, I’d love to make prints with hundreds of transparent colors and thousands of little cut out shapes.

JOEY PIZIALI

Texture, texture, texture. I love the worn away appearance of printed matter. Piziali uses found billboard material for his work, revealing large halftone dots among his colorful geometrics. His work made me rethink how I was using collage in my own work.