Carnage (2008)

I measure my drawings to create large scale collaged installations. I appropriate imagery from the Los Angeles Times, art auction catalogs, architectural, academic and lifestyle magazines, and personal photographs. The images I draw deal with war, religion, death, sexual desire, natural disasters, and pop culture. I detail the image’s lines with specific measurements (x inches) adding their corresponding degree angles (360˚-A˚= B˚) to create the many geometric shapes that make the whole.

The physical presence of the drawing creates an elaborate monochromatic collage, a wall relief, covering a wall or wrapping itself around the gallery’s interior architecture. The image is scaled up from its original source size (i.e., 1/8 inch = 4inch) into a life size scale creating a measured pixilation of the image. Made from various ripped pieces of white paper, adhesive tape, ink, pencil, glue and map pins, the drawing appears to be on the verge of ...

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I measure my drawings to create large scale collaged installations. I appropriate imagery from the Los Angeles Times, art auction catalogs, architectural, academic and lifestyle magazines, and personal photographs. The images I draw deal with war, religion, death, sexual desire, natural disasters, and pop culture. I detail the image’s lines with specific measurements (x inches) adding their corresponding degree angles (360˚-A˚= B˚) to create the many geometric shapes that make the whole.

The physical presence of the drawing creates an elaborate monochromatic collage, a wall relief, covering a wall or wrapping itself around the gallery’s interior architecture. The image is scaled up from its original source size (i.e., 1/8 inch = 4inch) into a life size scale creating a measured pixilation of the image. Made from various ripped pieces of white paper, adhesive tape, ink, pencil, glue and map pins, the drawing appears to be on the verge of falling apart mostly reiterating the chaotic scene or ephemeral quality of image’s subject matter. This repetitive and meditative process of drawing engages me to investigate the meaning of the image through measurements as a stand-in for language possibly breaking down its fixed meaning or re-enforcing it, offering other possible narratives or compositional abstractions.

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