Sketchbook

I watch the bombarded people
Who is watching the media people?
Log on, Tune out, Drop in

How much randomness and lack of control can I tolerate?
A culture industry induced coma of domesticated apathy
Representations of the world I live in not the world
I remember.

Taste the memories and they do not look
like photographs.
Watch the bombarded people
Because it’s a very important question

I’ve seen the help signs on the roof tops of my generation
I’ve seen the terrified ash white pod people
walking uptown to the safety of the big box stores

Words & Images changed to fit the story
while all the progress of the 20th Century avant-garde
is now contained in software

misunderestimated truth people
misdirection people
no people left behind people

Take your Ritalin people
cut & paste
because collage made a comeback
with a vengeance

wake up people
Because it’s a very important question

Elegy contains 200 images of American war dead. Clicking on a thumbnail image allowed a larger version to be viewed. With each viewing the image would degrade, gradually becoming almost completely white and disappearing into the page. These degraded images have now become the source for a series of mixed media paintings that raise awareness of the real cost of the U.S. occupation.

View the documented installation of Elegy to the American Republic

What happens to memory when the images are gone?
How does the act of devouring alter our perception?
What happens when we realize that someone else has already looked?
What sort of truths are expressed if you can change the image?

View a larger image.