Thursday, January 10, 2008

Text As Context

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These are two great examples from my "Newspaper Paintings" series. It was shortly after 9/11 and everything seemed so much more political and heavy and I just felt compelled to respond.

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The first work, "5 Sides To The Coin" pictures a family in Afghanistan, a mother and daughter reunited after 9/11 and a strip from another page listing the people who died in that tragedy.
The second work titled "3 Musketeers du Jour" is mostly just a wonderment about our headlines: political power brokers, war, and a sinkhole that swallows a man who heard a noise, opened his back door and fell in and disappeared.

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