I'm starting a new series and I'm very timid about it. It's particularly difficult to feel so timid with your only real form of speaking. There are things we don't have language for, things that need to be said and I don't want to say the wrong thing. I liked the mutants that I painted this summer and I'll probably come back to them but for an exclusive subject matter they're limiting and problematic. The problem is I'm so angry about so many things but the complexities and intricacies are overwhelming, even without the necessity of words. A professor of mine gave me some articles about the problems with "identity" which I'm basically really really super excited about because I think they could help tie everything together. At least as much as it needs to at this point.
I wish that frogs were not going extinct.
Here are some silly study drawings that will probably become actual work within the near future.
caw caw
I know, I'm awful at drawing planes. That's what that thing at the top is supposed to be, by the way. It kind of looks like a banana. A mechano-banana. I promise I'll be better in the actual paintings.
I've done one painting for the series thus far but it needs to be changed if I'm even going to use it. I like certain aspects of it but... I don't know. I'll stop there. I've been looking at it for far too long. Sorry for the crappy photos, my lovely photographer was out of town.
When I was in the studio documenting it somebody told me that she "thought a boy did it," whatever that's supposed to mean. Maybe because there's penis graffiti all over it?
"Xiphactinus"
Crooked installation view. Thank you for your kind note, Amber!
Panels by themselves
I also wish that fish were not going extinct.
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In unrelated news, this is totally what I want for my birthday guys
http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/daytona/home.do?link=Daytona_2008/hometoda
And OH MY GOD, Thomas Kinkade is making a MOVIE. His website is counting down the SECONDS. Somebody gag me with a spoon.
