DADG APES II

It's totally done. Yay.

I'm going to work on some smaller pieces to clear my head.

The work is all in ink, from two different pens. It's 22x40". The images are culled from Bosch's Last Judgement, a Durer piece, sundry band images, an old west coast zine and album covers/inserts. The piece combines related words and imagery from Northern Renaissance and Italian art/images with Late 80's/90's hardcore words and imagery, all of which look at torture through history and its connection with the idea of "mankind".

Coming up: drawings of ice cream.

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The second piece (not including that last one) is almost done. It draws from a lot of West coast hardcore imagery, as well as some of Durer's apocalyptic work and pieces of Bosch's The Last Judgement. It is largely about torture under religious pretences and humanity's history, in terms of culture and evolution. And there's numerology!

Also, I'm going to start making smaller "companion pieces" for the larger works, which elaborate on my source material, and, while existing as art in their own right, helping to decipher the layers of meaning embedded/hidden in the much larger, more time consuming pieces.

It's done

I finished the largest piece of art I have ever made.

That means it is the best.

Hand drawn in pen and ink, It's a lot of band logos with other images drawn overlapping. The overlapping parts include book passages, demons from the "Art of Dying", large symbols I made up and Japanese flower crests.

I did a screenprint this size once, but the drawings/positives were made by enlarging a much smaller drawing, so it doesn't really compare.

Some good art to come, but more joke art in the meantime.