Visting my mother and father during the winter has its perks. Always nice to return to a cozy home.

My dad and I are collaborating on a painting. I go back every few months to visit and the painting has changed. It is fun.

I should have used more of that reddish brown color. It is a Dark Souls color.

It will be interesting to see what he will do to it.

back in chicago

I had a good two weeks away from the studio andwas finally able to think of what to do with my work. These two instagram images inspired me.

Ruins at Mitla, Oaxaca, México, circa 1874., (original photograph possibly by Teobert Maler, c. 1874 - 1875?)

'What makes Mitla unique among Mesoamerican sites is the elaborate and intricate mosaic fretwork and geometric designs that cover tombs, panels, friezes and even entire walls. These mosaics are made with small, finely cut and polished stone pieces which have been fitted together without the use of mortar.
Site of a Pre-Columbian Zapotec and Mixtec city in the eastern arm of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Excavations have revealed that Mitla was a small Zapotec town around AD 400. Mixtec rule began c. AD 1000, when the city became a royal burial centre, but even then most of the population was still probably Zapotec. Mitla (Nahuatl: ‘Arrow place’, a corruption of ‘Miquitla’, ‘Death place’, which was a rough translation of Zapotec ‘Lyobaa’, ‘Inside-tomb’) comprises groups of surviving palaces and platforms that are a late part of the ancient community, most of which lies under the modern town. The palaces for which it is known were probably built during the 14th century AD, when Mixtec rulers dominated the Valley of Oaxaca and many Zapotecs had migrated east to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.' - University of Notre Dame,
https://www.instagram.com/p/CaN3W-9tXpv/

Pedro Friedeberg
Artist
Artist and designer. Mexican. Born in Florence, Italy. Based in Mexico City.
https://www.instagram.com/pedrofriedeberg/

studio

The collaborations with @wavyid are near finished we are almost done. this one is done we believe.

I have been layering semi-tesselated, non symetrical, laytex squares of airbrush drawings over one aother.

I have been sectioning off squares of raw canvas and doing airbrush drawings on them on large canvases. I did three, and they somewhat function as a tryptic. I do not know how i feel about these yet. they may be missing something. I am struggling with it.

time will tell.

I do not have photos of the "interiors" that i have been making, that were inspired by those instagram posts. That will be for a future studio update.

For now, a client is interested in Astral Surf (2018) and I needed to provide some extra photos of the piece.

Thats all for now. back to work!