My Artificial Nature/Existential Systems
We Developed a Theology of Natural Causes 2002 pencils, pens acrylics, oils, on denril 84" x 140"
A Translation of Light 2003 - oil, acrylic, pencil colored pencil on denril 84" x 140"
Time's Flower 2002 pencils, pens acrylics, oils, on denril 84" x 124"
Visual Equation with Inverted Tree 2002 pencils, pens acrylics, on denril 84" x 144"
Visual Equation with Inverted Tree 2002 pencils, pens acrylics, on denril 84" x 144"
Bad History 2002-3 acrylic and pencils on denril, 84"x 117"
Where everything shatters and everything is reclaimed- 2003 - oil, acrylic, pencil colored pencil on denril 84" x 80"
The Future Passed Us By 2001-2 acrylic, house paint and pencils on denril, 84"x 132"
Where everything shatters and everything is reclaimed- 2003 - oil, acrylic, pencil colored pencil on denril 84" x 80"
Bad Gardeners: detail
Don't worry, everything is always changing, acrylic and pencils on denril.jpg 2001 60" x 118"
Blockheads destroy the Screaming Earth, acrylic and pencils on denril 2001 48" x 135"
Rainboweaters in the snakepit acrylic, latex and pencils on denril 2002 84" x 60"
Melting Rainbowearthmen, acrylic and pencils on denril 2002 48" x 144"
Hate me Hate you acrylic and pencils on denril 2002 48" x 125"
Bad Builders Children acrylic and pencils on denril 2002 48" x 150"
2001-3 click to enlarge
The Follies followed the Bad Gardeners. I started the series immediately after September 11th, 2001 as a way of responding to the shock of the attack on New York, Pennsylvania and DC- all
in places I lived or had lived close to, and the fear and war that followed. The idea of the frieze, the wide strip came from comic strips as well as ancient imagery. The connection to the ancient
or the mythic is important, in that it alludes to the fallible nature of mankind that never changes and never really learns. The myths tell us that each of us must learn the same lessons all through history and
unless we learn from history and wisdom we will be doomed to repeat the same errors as the people who have gone before.
The imagery draws from works by Salvador Dali, Goya, El Greco and others, including the Dr. Suess story about the empty pants.