WCS Art and Design

WCS Art and Design WCS is a long-standing life philosophy… standing for Wake, Create, Sleep, it was the core initial inspiration for launching WCS as an umbrella establishment.

Landscape design & gardening, graphic design, music composition & performance, brand/concept authoring, writing, product design, clothing/costume design, photography, video, drawing, painting, sculpture, environment design and art-based event production. WCS is a cross-disciplinary art and design venture… created in 2008, with experience in landscape design/gardening (including Greenstaging: worki

ng with real estate agents to clean-up and/or design custom gardens for listings), graphic design, music composition and live performance, brand/concept authoring, writing/scriptwriting, poetry, copywriting, product design, clothing/costume design, photography, environment design and art-based event production. WCS is a path… inspired by the underlying ethos of Nature, the desire to consciously balance Natural and Synthetic, the desire to remain cognizant of what are Needs versus what are Wants and the philosophy that all good things only really come from Honesty, Humility and Creative Compassion.

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All work is billed on a sliding-scale and is developed equally regardless of where you fit on that scale. In other words, I believe your needs should never be held hostage by the perceived limitations of your budget. Clients working with pre-determined budgets (e.g., grant-based art projects) are highly encouraged to inquire.

WSB took the time to highlight my new mural, which was kind of them. If you'd like to experience it and want a personal ...
10/13/2024

WSB took the time to highlight my new mural, which was kind of them. If you'd like to experience it and want a personal tour, email me to schedule a day/time to make that happen.




Before getting into the news of the day ... an art break. We don't often get news releases from artists announcing new murals. For this one, we did. Artist Christopher Hydinger has added that mural to those already on the wall along the alley leading south from SW Dawson behind Rite Aid; we went ove...

SELF DEFENSEThis is my new pro-environmental mural, 'Breaking News: Alien Messiah Engages Portal, Presses Delete' at Wes...
10/09/2024

SELF DEFENSE
This is my new pro-environmental mural, 'Breaking News: Alien Messiah Engages Portal, Presses Delete' at West Seattle's world-class art alley West Side Wall (located behind the Rite Aid at 5217 California Ave SW 98136). Installed at the north end of the alley, this large-scale drawing created using only small paint pens took over 65 hours to complete and vibrantly visualizes in great detail the absurdity of a Messiah coming to Save Us illustrated through the comically dramatic lens of an Alien Messiah at the moment they have decided to press the Delete button.

"Compositionally, the viewer is able to enjoy the expansive view through the Portal and into the Universe of the Alien Messiah, but because the floating Delete button (designed using the principles of chromostereopsis to create a no-glasses-needed 3D illusion) has been oriented facing the Alien Messiah (all "recycle" icons feature arrows pointing clockwise), this also gives the viewer the physical sensation of simultaneously inhabiting the inside of something while also looking out from it (a world inside a box, a cage, a computer, a more expansive ecosystem). Combined with the larger-than-life presence of the beautiful but intimidating Alien Messiah and the ominously designed Delete button, this is intended to create an unsettlingly eerie shock. But hopefully this shock will inspire a deeply motivating pro-environmental perspective to emerge. And just in time for Halloween!"

"This work needed to be in the public eye, accessible, not bottled up in a gallery, big, bold, with a pinch of comedy and completely unafraid to spotlight the truth. The truth that I've tried to extremely vibrantly illustrate? We genuinely must focus on working to Save ourselves, each other and the only planet we have. No one and nothing is going to do it for us."

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WCS Art and Design is a cross-disciplinary venture with experience in landscape design and gardening, graphic design, music composition and performance, brand/concept authoring, writing, product design, clothing/costume design, photography, video, drawing, painting, sculpture, environment design and art-based event/media production under P.I.L.L. Interactive Liminal Laboratories.



This has become, for several reasons, one of my favorite spots to sit and write. And it’s connected to both the South Se...
08/14/2024

This has become, for several reasons, one of my favorite spots to sit and write. And it’s connected to both the South Seattle College Arboretum as well as the West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails, one of my favorite urban forest hikes. Win win win, thank you thank you thank you.

Wranglers of the blazey’all seein this here haikubetter oughta be.
08/10/2024

Wranglers of the blaze
y’all seein this here haiku
better oughta be.


NEW PATIO GARDENThe concept here is Life From Trash (classic metal trash cans, Emeco x Coca Cola recycled chairs, plus m...
08/09/2024

NEW PATIO GARDEN
The concept here is Life From Trash (classic metal trash cans, Emeco x Coca Cola recycled chairs, plus more to come) and was technically a necessary redesign due to a sudden demolition of the original built-in containers that lined the west and north walls. All my plants were also removed without my consent, so that fueled the concept’s raw emotional side. The patio also shares a wall with an alley where the building’s refuse bins are located… so the concept is a humorous and lighthearted wink to the site’s context as well. Balance is key. I’ve got healthy postmodernist tendencies like that, I guess.

Questions? Comments? Let me know!



SO many layers of meaning in this one, as well as my first sincere attempt to carve with AI, and I'm ultra proud of the ...
08/09/2024

SO many layers of meaning in this one, as well as my first sincere attempt to carve with AI, and I'm ultra proud of the result. Thanks goes to Peter Verdoes for green lighting my compulsion to create some kind of music video for this particular Eggshells comp, and to everyone really for not shutting it down in its early iterations haha.




The official video for "Amaranthine" from Eggshells' LP Phases. Jenny Invert Records 2024Video by P.I.L.L. Interactive Liminal Laboratories ---Official Websi...

Full Video Release: August 9, 2024*********CONCEPT/VIDEOP.I.L.L. Interactive Liminal Laboratories*********RECORDING/MIXI...
08/06/2024

Full Video Release: August 9, 2024
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CONCEPT/VIDEO
P.I.L.L. Interactive Liminal Laboratories
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RECORDING/MIXING
Tunia
Timothy Robert Graham
Peter Verdoes
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ACTORS ASSISTANTS
Southern Montana Protective Custody, Inc.
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CATERING
Yummy Goodness Catering Company
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TRAVEL MANAGEMENT
Peculiar Logistics
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LEGAL REPRESENTATION
Inglestine, Patz, Opsvik & Frasier
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LABEL/BOOKING
Jenny Invert Records
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© 2024 Eggshells

Full Video Release: August 9, 2024*********CONCEPT/VIDEOP.I.L.L. Interactive Liminal Laboratories*********RECORDING/MIXINGTuniaTimothy Robert GrahamPeter Ver...

HERE/NOWInspired by the order-from-chaos that always poetically emerged from each improv-based duet, I originally design...
07/28/2024

HERE/NOW
Inspired by the order-from-chaos that always poetically emerged from each improv-based duet, I originally designed this as part of a series of Perfectly Messy graphic artworks intended for wearables like sweatshirts and tees for the HERE/NOW quarterly Dance/Movement Art x Music/Sound Art live performance series (2009-12) that I co-created, co-produced, etc.



BMXThis one gently hits but hits poignantly regardless. Short film touching on the movement of time and its effect on ou...
07/26/2024

BMX
This one gently hits but hits poignantly regardless. Short film touching on the movement of time and its effect on our perspective, on our capacity for acceptance and the humility of starting over, on appreciating what we’ve been able to experience and the memories we’ve created along that path by simply choosing to regularly be in a place that we find inspiring.

Support your local tracks… make rad memories.



'We Will Never Be This Young Ever Again'Filmed at SeaTac BMXseatacbmx.comSupport your local tracks... make rad memories.---------Video/Music by Christopher H...

Typography design as optical illusion, named for the color of the dots you see as your eyes dart around the text.
06/29/2024

Typography design as optical illusion, named for the color of the dots you see as your eyes dart around the text.


Power outage at HQ landed me here for a late late breakfast. Been too long, love this spot.
06/27/2024

Power outage at HQ landed me here for a late late breakfast. Been too long, love this spot.

UNSTOPPABLEBLANKI just finished this new music video for my singer-songwriter project The Music of Grayface. It is part ...
06/16/2024

UNSTOPPABLEBLANK
I just finished this new music video for my singer-songwriter project The Music of Grayface. It is part of the v4.0 approach with a completely new musical aesthetic, vocals and instrumentation... let me know what you think!

“The extremes of the contemporary lifestyle, the spasmodic reactionary choices, the daft thoughtlessness, the compulsion to engage in the performative act instead of the authentic one, the disconnect from merely pointing at the disconnect, the narrowing downward spiral of pastel positivity in exchange for a semblance of belonging, the monster of our individual design.”

(headphones recommended)


The extremes of the contemporary lifestyle, the spasmodic reactionary choices, the daft thoughtlessness, the compulsion to engage in the performative act ins...

Now this is exhibit design, and in honor of an incredible designer. 😍
05/31/2024

Now this is exhibit design, and in honor of an incredible designer. 😍

G*e Aulenti, the Italian designer, architect and original thinker, is celebrated with a dedicated retrospective at Milan’s Triennale Design Museum

Occupied the knollthis haiku pines embeddedplanned a dippy act.
05/27/2024

Occupied the knoll
this haiku pines embedded
planned a dippy act.


L’office de l’auteur.
05/14/2024

L’office de l’auteur.


B!G!These are the fantastic folks whose palm wax-based tea lights I've been including with every WCS Naturally Felled Tr...
03/29/2024

B!G!
These are the fantastic folks whose palm wax-based tea lights I've been including with every WCS Naturally Felled Trees Series candle holder for many, many years.



It's a spring celebration! For a limited time, buy one year-round scented tin and get another of the same size for free. Mix and match the scents. Applies to both small 2 ounce and large 6 ounce tins. Stock up!

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