ARTWORK: My New Anti-Bush Installation (Fitting Now More Than Ever)

[Hissyspit]

Here I present photos of the Anti-Bush administration artwork that I have installed as part of our latest faculty show. The work is referred to by myself as a 'study' for a final installation, in that I don't consider the work complete and have a larger final concept in mind to be constructed and completed later, as the * administration history progresses. The work IS intended to be a two-story work in its final state, whatever that will be. Below you will see several perspectives/points of view of the work reflecting the way that visitors to the gallery can view it.

Thematically, it seems to be more fitting since even just yesterday than the week before when I first put it up. The main three elements include a photograph I took of a wind-manipulated American flag (the flag, rescued from the middle of a highway in 2001 after having fallen off some SUV, I'm sure, having been lowered, turned over and folded into a triangle, but not by human hands), images of Carroll/Tenniel's Alice down the rabbit hole, and a vintage soldier/child stuffed figure lying next to blood coming from the wall. This lastest horror from Congress, the "Anti-Constitution Torture Everybody Innocent Or Not Cover Bush's War Criminal Butt" bill, is sending us down the rabbit hole even more than I ever thought possible.

Images are all original Photoshop'd digital prints, doll is found/selected object (I have no idea of its original meaning - I think it was a milk company/dairy mascot form the 1940s; I found it at a flea market in Baltimore), and blood is plastisol/tool dip.

I thought everyone might get a kick out of seeing this.



Overview of Entire Installation:





Closer View of 2-D Elements:





Clsoer View:





Worm's Eye View:





Bird's Eye View from the Second Story Windows:





Close-Up of the Doll Figure Element:





Another Close-Up Detailing the "Missing" Limb:






All the 2-D Elements Presented from Top to Bottom:

[madrchsod]

1. very cool!

i`d really like to see this live. big "tip of the hat" to you!

[Hissyspit]

2. kick for the night crowd n/t

[marions ghost]

3. awesome

:thumbsup: hissyspit

random thoughts while viewing

welcome to the rabbit hole it's not so fun down here
hitting the sides of the well while falling
hell can be captured in pretty pictures
historical references, the old doll...we have been in this nightmare before
fakiness of everything
bizarre things going on behind the scenes
hard to breathe, sudden migraine, vertigo
wake up!!!

thanks for taking us to your exhibit--let us know where the concept goes :)

[Hissyspit]

4. Very good! You get an A+

Even stuff I didn't think of...

[npincus]

5. impressive!

[Generic Other]

6. Down down down the rabbit hole

I have the same sensation of falling...wonderful placement of the canvasses. Unsettling.

[Hissyspit]

7. Thanks. They're technically not canvases, but digital prints, although

originally I was going to send linen canvas through the printer and see what happened, but we ran out of time. I believe I will reproduce some of these images as paintings later. The frames are not actually touching the prints, which are just tacked up. The cheap frames are meant to mirror the cheap vinyl siding in the flag photo as well as the Victorian furniture in the Disney rabbit hole images.