The man who created this tattooed a straight razor on my arm.
That makes me fucking excellent.
Sunday, 21 November 2010
Saturday, 6 November 2010
Thursday, 4 November 2010
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows
The painting is now finished.
I've decided it's time to move away from the image and possibly return to it in a month or so.
The problem has been of late that I've been creating this very unholy image in such a holy way but at the same time spending so much time with it that it's meaning is changing for me.
Which I don't want it to.
But as you see the image above, in the Holden gallery at university, a senior lecturer whom I don't know walked into the gallery and talked to me about my image.
He said that the image appeared abstract at first, reminding him of a Rauchenberg, but he then was able to pick out the nose and began to see a face.
Once he recognised the eagle on the hat he said that it was an SS officer and a good five minutes after, he realised it was Hitler from the moustache.
This is good.
I wanted to achieve that level of ambiguity. That level of abstruseness with this image.
He mentioned that once he could see the face in the image he couldn't not see it as he had previously done.
The drummer in my band, Alex said that this was fitting; to have fascism concealed inside things.
The painting is still untitled.
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