Tainted Enlightenment-1’x10”-Sealant foam, liquid latex, spray paint, pastel, water color, glaze, stuffed dog eye, safety pins
Piece I made for the ThroatArt Truck Show, I made a liquid latex mold of my face, mounted it onto foam core, filled it with sealant foam until it came out the orifices, let it dry, spray painted the foam, put on layers of pastel and water color on the latex skin, then peeled it back in the fore head and scooped out the foam to make a place for the eye I inserted.
Basic idea behind this, almost every person I meet who is into enlightenment, the third eye, general hippie garabe, tend to actually be very shallow superficial people who use it as a way of seeming deep, or interesting, or misleading and using people who are even less aware than they are.
Hippies fucking piss me off.
Low Quality Avatars, Page 04. Andrew Remington Bailey. Digital, ink on paper. 5.5 x 7 inches. 2011
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Celebes (Elephant Celebes) - Max Ernst, 1921
From the Tate Collection’s website:
The boiler-like monster to which the title refers is, like the rest of the painting, highly ambiguous. It has a horned head with apparently sightless eyes, but a pair of tusks projecting on the left suggests the possible presence of a second head (or perhaps the real head?) on the other side. Its neck seems to consist of a long snake-like coil which emerges from a hole in its upper section; the top is surmounted by a brightly-coloured construction containing a mysterious eye. It seems to be standing in a large open space, but there are also indications that it is embedded in a solid background, while two fishes swim in the sky above. Three upright objects stand around it, while in the bottom corner a headless mannequin figure with a raised arm appears to be beckoning the monster towards it.
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