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Done originally as a drawing in a math notebook which in turn was inspired by gershwins Rapsody in Blue. Suburbs II was meant to represent how a lot of city folk live trapped in their own small world where everything unfamiliar to them lay just beyond that boundary of the city limits. This mindset could be likened to living in a snow globe, making it hard for one to even comprehend there is something out side the glassy walls.
IWWT was done freehand and inspired by the syle of a russian artist known as Kol Belov, admittedly chumbawamba's song 'God Save the Queen / The Enemy Within" it was the first peice of large art done since the first sunset in the suburbs, and the most merciless. The colors were hand picked from a set of near-matches to the US military's own basic camoflage colors, and the ruined city sscapes if you notice get more and more green the further away they are. The color shading is a analogy for foreign warfare.
No I dont mean american Idol, I mean money, no other nation but america obsesses over it abuses it embezzles it and over credits it like the USA does. This is an nod to what too many americans always have on mind..the dollar. The root of all evil no, but perhaps the heart of stupidity.
This one is rife with warnings, all of them about a new kind of holocaust, the one we have to worry for the most, a nuclear one.
This picture is one of the few that only uses three colors, red white and black, but they make a very clear point. The black lines rising up in zig-zags represent radiation rife inthe atmosphere from recent blasts. The Red denotes perhaps, that more blasts are going off unseen or that it is the twilight of mankind. The black and white scrawlings in the lower areas of the picture represent respectively the barren feilds and the radioactive partiles that have settled there. Finally in the lower left corner is a destroyed telephone pole. Perversely this picture uses all the colors in both the modern biohadard symbol and the original colors from the early radioactive symbols from the 50's.
This painting is all about immigration plain and simple. while it is not clearly visible due to the photo quality the painting depicts this bird flying over two walls carried or perhaps shadowed by those in it's wake. In truth everyone in america is an immigrant except the native americans and when it comes to immigrants crossing the border now I suspect all the whiners in this country ahd better remember that they too are not native. This country was built on the backs of those we'd call foreigners.
Why is it that we put work first so much in this culture? I never understood this, it's good to work and all that but focusing on work creates a nation of overly stiff-spined folks with no sense of humor who have full cardiac implosions at 30. Well needless to say the road in this picture represents working, while the strange twoer in the background is where you want to be really or rather where you should be.. notice the two don't seem to connect? The point is if you spend all your time focusing on one thing you'll never get anywhere, you really will end up with a big empty spot inside.
The sentiment of this one is aimed squarely at that obnoxious 30% of america who are the armchair warriors. They have never been to war they ducked the draft, they talk of fighting the good fight but a find a reason not to do any fighting when the time comes. Two of these people are in the president's office right now. On the streets these are the same people who say 'Nuke Em and let god sort 'em out!' in the most callous way possible. These people are the armchair warriors, the worlds foremost cowards.
The painting itself is done in six colors, each of them represents a commentary.
Black - The area of black is a nod to the maps of old where scholars would make up wild things to cover for the blacnk spots on the map, what it symbolizes is a lack of knowledge on ones world as a whole.
Light Gray, Oxide Gray, Blue Gray - The muted warped colors of the American flag, a mockery of the fake revolutions and utopian democracies that didn't work in america but for some reason are expected to work in some foreign country that has bigger issues.
Yellow Oxide - The yellow oxide denotes the sheer level of cowardace that the armchair warrior displays.
Red Oxide - The Red Oxide is a representation of the blood of those the warrior would gladly send to die dripping from their soft unscarred palms.
It is the combination of it all that hurts the warrior most, for his ignorance is slowly devouring his utopian flag and soon he will be left with nothing.
A city skyline, but the sky isn't blue, and the sun isn't yellow, for this is a dead city sitting in the shadows of mankind's own twilight. A biological twilight, the equalizer and peerless cleanser. Millions are spent on these sorts of weapons yearly, and for what? To cause a scene like this, a point of anguish and suffering. The quote was an afterthought, an almost ironic comment from a song that was paying at the time this was painted.
Ever notice how there are so many living off of pills and drugs these days for things that strong will power could fix? This is an ode to them, the ones who are eternally trapped in a bottle. Yes life did get cheaper, it seems to cost 5.99 at CVS.