Bodies as a Means to Abstraction
I have been slowly figuring out my compositions. I have been working with collage and making sketches in my drawing book.
I am using the drawing and collages as a meditation, hopefully capture and convey what I have been experiencing over the last year, and maybe even the last 5 years or so.
The idea that I am trying to address in this work is the concept of personhood. Under that umbrella idea there is a whole slue of things that play into our experience as a PERSON(citizen's) of our great country (USA), that keeps "us" the citizen's fragmented from each other.
The list is long, but here are a few; gender ideal, idealized beauty, transphobia, homophobia, racism, stereotypes, objectification, classism and cultural appropriation.
Since I started composing this blog post another unarmed black man was shot and killed in uptown MPLS, WINSTON SMITH " Say His Name". As well as, a protester was run down by a crazed racist drug addict maniac.
A Gay male was ran down by his homophonic neighbor.
A mass grave of 215 Native children were found at an Indian school in Canada.
Juneteenth is now a National Holiday, Great I love it!
Now stop killing unarmed black folks!
The last couple of years have been very strange.
We now are dealing with yet another wave of
Covid-19. The Delta variant, I cant keep up with all this.
