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My latest paintings deal with pop-culture and its effect on the modern world. I am fascinated by our
‘get it quick’ society and the way it shapes us as people. I want to place this era into a mystical, reverent
context.
By creating large-scale oil paintings I will endeavor to blend the images of consumer culture
with experience at the personal level. I will do this by using my friends and myself as models. I want to examine mass-produced
items, specifically fast food, on an intimate scale.
I have chosen locations such as fast-food restaurants,
convenience stores, vending machines, and supermarkets as settings for my tableau. I see these four locales as the ‘four
pillars’ of modern food consumption. I hope to create scenes that show people undertaking unexplainable activities or
rituals. By doing this I hope to raise these subjects to a mythic level.
The way we acquire our sustenance
in North America is unlike anything in world history. Fast food is created in labs rather than coming straight from the farm.
Since survival requires that we must eat, the strange and thoroughly modern way we acquire this strange and thoroughly modern
food in the late 20th century must impact our very core.
With this show I am hoping the make the
past overlap with the present. By examining these themes in a mythical way I hope to create a new outlook on the way we live.
I hope to be a myth-maker for modern consumerism. October, 1994
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