I particularly like the way the guy is checking out the girl
and she is pleading outside the
picture plane for help
and the turkey
looks like a
vaginal
cave.
M
I’ve been having fun with this one point perspective triangular composition thing.
I’ve always been morally opposed to perspective (took Ab Ex too seriously perhaps, or just Clement Greenburg), but somehow drawing Kubrick’s 2001 obelisk for Asi Nisi Masa started me thinking about pyramids and ancient desert visions and triangular composition by way of El Greco and Cezanne. I hope that the perspective is stylized enough to be an obvious trick…. a narrative convention – a way of organizing the marks and the characters described by those marks in a satisfying way. It also points towards some questions about ways of seeing and knowing the world – questions about monotheism and the subjective and the objective and the narrator and illusions and lies… which brings us back to a political screed I’m too tired to talk about. Any way, these things seem to work on several levels for me, but I was not thinking about any of that as I actually worked on them, I was listening to Led Zep II and III and laughing at the guy’s expression. Let’s blame Robert Plant.
