Dog in hair.
Eyeball arm stalk.
Whistling Bird, 1998
This piece pre-dates Beachcomber by ten years. They are both denizens of an imagined future in which animal, plant, and consumer-goods DNA has merged. Whistling Bird was genetically modified to be clean, cute, and flightless.
Eye.
2 comments:
Picasso made a baboon here reminds me of that and some other famous dudes who made stuff - back to archimboldi's fruit faces - and before that the "green man" of pagan lore - so this is a tradition that, increasingly divorced from...oh who am I kidding. It looks like fun. I honestly picked up a shell or two from the beach the other day - and I made a face out of a stone, a snail type dealio (he kind hermit crabs squat in) and some driftwood. Its freakin childsplay. WHat is this guy two? I know I am. But what are you.
That and the simpsons - which pensato references in her postmodern pastiche of pop expressionism.
If you want I can can tear off a slab of whup ass, but then I;d have to fry it up, and that's work.
very interesting..would like to see more from this artists..like the use of old toys..
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