Houdini
Inspiration - The cover art for Take the Boy out of Bradenton by Hot Water Music.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself, you hold the key fool. We can go anywhere we want, lets just sail away!
Acrylic on wood panel, 25 x 25in, Ampersand panel frame (black.)
Framed next to the original.
*process
The flowers tell us that life is fine where we are. The voice in the back of our head, our trusty canary, is on alert for bullshit squawking “wake up dude!” We wish we could but we can’t, our hands are tied. Our tethers are psychosomatic, they are of our imagination. We are not stuck, on the contrary. The boat is leaving, hurry up. We can leave at any time and someday will… I swear.
Very simple composition. Very few actors on stage but all with a role to play as stated above. This piece represents classic SINC by featuring a giant weirdo, a bird, some scribble tattoos, a newsprint transfer, some flowers & some strife. Nailed it.
The boat is composed of Bukowski quotes and xerox transferred onto white acrylic paint.
There was a key tattoo in the sketch, representing the fact that we were the key all along. It was crowding the chest and the hands. IT was extremely redundant considering there was no lock and the tethers are imaginary. Same message, redundant icons.
I wanted the hands, the hallucination, to be the hearth of the image. This goal became clearer as I painted and moved away from the initial sketch. I loved the idea of the tattoos becoming the tangle.
Similar narrative as the original. Helpless with a caged heart. No arms to unlock the door,
