Detached Erotica #1: The Gap
The Sisters of Celebes
Vomitous Ahegao (Bang Smear)
86 Stoppages
The Belle in the Pool
Les Demoiselles d’Porte Treize
Ben Daze
Explosions in the Shingle Factory
A contemporary critic once likened the Cubist style to an explosion in a shingle factory’. Although meant as an insult, it is not an altogether inaccurate description. Representative works show a delicate balance between chaos and structure, serving as documents of upheaval. They are attempts to derive meaning from society splintered by war, rapidly evolving technology, or a host of other – often jarring – paradigm shifts. The process of fragment-reintegration is manifest in the Surrealist and Pop movements as well, the first focusing on the mind the second concerned with consumerist sensibilities. This series is a love letter to those movements, reveling in both the explosion and the measured search for reason thereafter. Despite their chopped and disjointed nature they are expressions of hope, the search for eddies of sanity in the turbulence. An exploration of movement, unfurling visions of chance, death, and transcendence.