Jon MacNair

This mural was created as a backdrop for my 2015 solo show, Noctem, at Antler Gallery in Portland Oregon. It was started and completed over the course of one week.

I created this birdhouse for the 2013 Put a Bird in It show, here in Portland. The concept of the show was for all participants to redefine the word birdhouse however they saw fit, and create a structure with an opening for a bird to dwell. I made mine from ink and paper, the same materials I use for my drawings. The challenge was transforming it into a 3-D structure and essentially creating my own blueprint for it. I added bird inhabitants to the house and furnished some of the rooms, visible behind paper curtains. It was a very labor intensive project and took about a week of work, with very long days. I was pretty happy with the result.

A collaborative sketchbook project with illustrator and designer Santiago Uceda.

This is the first zine I ever created, back in 2009. The title refers to the fact that all the drawings were doodled while I was on duty at various horrible day/night jobs. Unfortunately, the large pile of them (pictured at the very bottom) were ruined when a pipe burst out of the wall of my work area.

This was my first real attempt at doing a comic. It was kind of odd because it was a collaborative comic based out of London, and I don't know how the story really progressed after the one page I created. It was a very stream-of-consciousness type story in my opinion. All the dialogue was already written and even the number of panels was pre-planned. But it was interesting to delve into sequential art, despite the restrictions.