Our progress as artists
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
A unique conjunction of the planets or something gives me the opportunity to show you the progress Aaron and I have made as artists in the past 11 years. After the comments on the previous post, Aaron was inspired to create an “artistic rendering of the plight of you midwesterners.” You’ll see that later in the post.
I, on the other hand, was inspired to ask my parents for photos of the mural that decorates the outer walls of the studio we built in our barn. Thanks to the fact that we signed and dated our masterpiece, I can tell you that we painted this mural when we were about 14 years old. Lest you think that we were “good kids who painted murals in their spare time,” I confess that we also concocted explosives and torched aeresol cans. Andd now, if any of you were wondering what my mom was referring to when she commented about carrots with machine guns and rabid rabbits, here are close-ups of two sections of the mural. The media were (I think) oil on fiberboard and oil on particle board, respectively:
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Aaron was responsible for the carrots and anything that looks remotely good. I was responsible for the rabbits and the ”(un)happy trees”. Notice especially the tongue-in-cheek references to the ubiquitous consumerism of our society when we made the clouds say “Eat at Joe’s” and the 1970’s John Doe sun advertise a bottle of Coke.
So that you can see how far we have come since then, here is Aaron’s artistic representation of a stingray of doom (the “plight of the midwest” that I mentioned above):
As you can see, this giant land ray is busy wreaking havoc on what appears to be a tanker truck in what appears to be a grassy field. I’m a little fuzzy on the details, but I’m sure that’s because the level of the work outpaced my knowledge. I don’t know why our art has the tendency to center around enormous animals/vegetables destroying things. There’s probably some psychological explanation.
As for the example of my most recent artistic pursuit, you’ll have to wait until the next post. Actually, I’m not sure you could call what I’m currently doing art, but then, if rabid rabbits and gargantuan stingrays crushing things are the standards by which we’re judging art… maybe I’m an artist after all. ;)
A unique conjunction of the planets or something gives me the opportunity to show you the progress Aaron and I have made as artists in the past 11 years. After the comments on the previous post, Aaron was inspired to create an “artistic rendering of the plight of you midwesterners.” You’ll see that later in the post.
I, on the other hand, was inspired to ask my parents for photos of the mural that decorates the outer walls of the studio we built in our barn. Thanks to the fact that we signed and dated our masterpiece, I can tell you that we painted this mural when we were about 14 years old. Lest you think that we were “good kids who painted murals in their spare time,” I confess that we also concocted explosives and torched aeresol cans. Andd now, if any of you were wondering what my mom was referring to when she commented about carrots with machine guns and rabid rabbits, here are close-ups of two sections of the mural. The media were (I think) oil on fiberboard and oil on particle board, respectively:
....
Aaron was responsible for the carrots and anything that looks remotely good. I was responsible for the rabbits and the ”(un)happy trees”. Notice especially the tongue-in-cheek references to the ubiquitous consumerism of our society when we made the clouds say “Eat at Joe’s” and the 1970’s John Doe sun advertise a bottle of Coke.
So that you can see how far we have come since then, here is Aaron’s artistic representation of a stingray of doom (the “plight of the midwest” that I mentioned above):
As you can see, this giant land ray is busy wreaking havoc on what appears to be a tanker truck in what appears to be a grassy field. I’m a little fuzzy on the details, but I’m sure that’s because the level of the work outpaced my knowledge. I don’t know why our art has the tendency to center around enormous animals/vegetables destroying things. There’s probably some psychological explanation.
As for the example of my most recent artistic pursuit, you’ll have to wait until the next post. Actually, I’m not sure you could call what I’m currently doing art, but then, if rabid rabbits and gargantuan stingrays crushing things are the standards by which we’re judging art… maybe I’m an artist after all. ;)
