One Thousand Thousand

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEEY4a5NQvc)

Painting Number 335,000 for the One Thousand Thousand project.

Painting No. 334,630 of 1,000,000 

[Encaustic, oil, acrylic and ink on paper board]

The Ricoh Theta S camera is pretty amazing. It captures a complete 360° space in a single shot and our friend Stan installed his on the ceiling of the gallery. It took a single photo every minute for over 36 hours and it captured the complete exhibition from the installation of The First Third show and the bare gallery walls all the way through the opening night artists’ reception. 

When you view the YouTube video on desktop you can grab the video as it’s playing to drag and pan and rotate the view. It’s even cooler, I think, to view it on mobile and when you do that you can physically rotate your phone to look behind you at the space in the full 360° range.

It works on Google Cardboard too. 

A little stretch of pieces that ended up being stamped as completed on February 29, 2016. I think there may be a couple/few more from this day but I know there aren’t a lot of Leap Day pieces around.

Some of the pieces done in contribution towards the One Thousand Thousand project by artist William Schaff. 

The interesting thing about the project is that you almost never end up with the results you expect but what you do end up with is still pretty amazing. When I dumped some not-quite-finished pieces on Will I just left them at his place and suggested that if he felt like adding something t them then cool. If not, then cool. It’s unusual for him to work in anything that resembles the confines of others and I was grateful that he’d even consider the idea. For more reasons than one the pieces he did are some of my very favorites of the project and I was glad to be able to include them in The First Third retrospective last month.

I’m even more happy to say that he’s already doing many more for the project and I’ll be sure to share those images and give you a heads up when they become available. He’s been incredibly cool to allow these pieces to be a full-on part of the project in every way and that includes the price. I’ve kept the pieces from the One Thousand Thousand project at under twenty bucks for the past twenty years and it’s not every day you’ll be able to score an original Will Schaff piece for that price.

Portrait of Brothers

Portrait of David on the Run From Saul by William Schaff and Brothers of Darkness by Mike Egan in contribution towards a sub-set of pieces done for the One Thousand Thousand project.  One Thousand Thousand is an ongoing and frequently collaborative effort to produce an edition of one million hand-made, original works on paper. After making new pieces of art just about every day for the last 20 years the project recently just past the 333,333 mark. To celebrate the point of reaching The First Third 33 other artists were invited to create a piece that was numbered as 333,333 and dated with March 3, 2016. [The day before the retrospective exhibition opened and often written as, yup, 3/3.] 

The work that each artist submitted would then be sent to one of the other participating artists as an art exchange and these are two of the submissions. It’s fittingly cool that Mike and William will finally own a piece of art from one another.