I created these because it pleases me to create them. Go ahead and download them, save them, give them to your friends, print them and hang them on a wall, whatever you want. "Property" is simply not a productive paradigm for art.

If you like these images and you do something special with them, I'd be glad if you could drop me an e-mail, though, as I like getting feedback. (Update: I rarely get around to writing emails any more -- But I do read everything you send me, eventually.) And of course you're allowed to donate to help with the hosting, if you'd like.

Artistically speaking, 2003 was a bust. I simply, plainly didn't have any time for artwork. Thus much of what you see here is derivative of something else I had done ("Harlequin snail" obviously derived from "Spiral" for example), the colors tend towards simple rainbows, the compositions are choppy, light and saturation are uneven.

In late july of 03 I went to Tokyo on a work-related trip and never managed to get back to UF after my return until november, when I flew to antarctica and thus the year was cut short.

Weirdly, this was the year when I got my first "publication" offer -- a CD cover on which the client wanted the sun-like thing in "badge" (the CD had the same rainbow twirl printed on it but where the sun would be is the hole in the CD). I was more than happy to make the image to the client's satisfaction, in part because I simply didn't have the time to put into any kind of creative input into the process.

I'd like to note the lense-glare in the center of "Flutter" which makes its debut here and which I re-used (and re-ab-used) a lot in 2004 as a kind of desperation-device when I can't quite figure out what to do in the center of an image. It looks harmless enough, but I'm actually kind of embarrassed about it.

The only image from that year that I still really like - as crude and roughly hewn as it is - is "Copernicus". Unsurprisingly it is also the only image in the lot that took some real time and effort to create.