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I extract images from visual sources
such as Disney, Playboy, Victoria's Secret and dissect, mutate,
merge, alter, augment, deface, empower and displace them into a
ridiculous, chaotic, dysfunctional, tangled coexistence. My work
teeters on the edge of disturbing and whimsical, repulsive and
desirable. I populate my drawings and paintings with mutants and
deviants, arming many with pistols, knives and sharp abdominal
teeth. Enormous pies, stuffed with animals, women and children, are
served on the backs of Playboy models. Bodies devour, trap and give
birth to various creatures. Castles, Victorian houses and colonial
gravestones set scenes for twentieth and twenty-first century pin-up models and cartoon characters. I seek to reflect the reality, tension,
conflict, violence, and complexity bleached and blotted out by
over-simplified, polished, artificial, commercial facades dictating
cultural ideals and archetypes of femininity. I merge the estranged
fantasy realms of sexy pin-ups of women and children's cartoons
because they are remarkably similar and interchangeable in their
seductive simplicity, constant visibility and repetition. They both
dutifully serve their function to distract, seduce, pacify, and
brainwash the viewer to obediently follow prescribed roles and
purchase required supplies. Anthropomorphized Disney animals
parallel images of women presented as purely physical creatures
whose human capacities are simply vacant or replaced with the
identity of an infant or juvenile animal, i.e. bunny, kitten.
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