Sake

The man who created this tattooed a straight razor on my arm.
That makes me fucking excellent.

True Love

Untitled painting

http://yaakovforstovski.daportfolio.com/gallery/464597

namen..

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.

Oh hi Mark

It's bigger than hip-hop.
Apparently.
I have done a lot more work on the mouth.
I say a lot.
It's not.
But I'm very concerned with pushing Hitler back and Fra Angelico forward in the painting.

I've made the right cheek of his face less definite.
I think it will make more areas of the painting more of an interest. Like making the star more of an impacting issue. As much as it can be, that subtly.

I really think that the Hebrew at the bottom, as my signature so to speak, will make the image fit more and become less offensive. As such.
Perhaps.
I really think that titling will change peoples preconception of the work.

"Selling liberty for a quiet life."

Nah.