



medium: acrylic on sandblasted granite
dimensions: 53" x 53" x 1" overall; 6.5"
x 6'5" x 1" each individual panel
A reminder of death that waits behind it all; cartoons
in graven stone, the exact opposite of decaying newsprint … in this new body
of work, I have attempted to infuse granite (the material used by the funerary
/ death industry to quietly and respectfully monumentalize/cap over a ceased
life) with darkly cartoon 'pop' impressions of skulls, grinning fear figures
culled from the image bank of the culture at large (collected using the image-search
function on the Google
search engine and then transforming these finds into line-art); the skulls
act as a kind of 21st century version of the "memento mori" reminding
the viewer to "remember death", the inevitability that waits beyond
life, love & entertainment; there is an unease to these works that goes
beyond their surface and probes at the very uncomfortable protective bubble
that the living place around themselves, particular in the Western world.