Bender in Manet's Olympia

This is #1 of a series of six paintings. The cat was a bit apprehensive of the whole situation, but in the end, it was quite happy.

Bender in Olympia

This image is a little hard to see but it it the newest piece I am working on. This is a sketch for painting-in- progress. It is the first in a commissioned series of six for a private patron. The series consists of famous robots placed into well known works of art. This particular piece, is a combination of Edouard Manet's, Olympia, but in the place of Olympia is Bender from Futurama. I'm not sure about copyrights in this case, so if anyone knows, I would love to know in case I need permission from the creator of bender...

Long Board

This is the long board that I made. I cannot take credit for putting on the trucks and wheels but the board, design and painting was all done by me.

It's rare to see such a clear rainbow so I wanted to share it.

"COQ" cont.

Ok, the bottom photo is the start of this project and the two on the left are the finished product. I called this work 'Coq' for two reasons: the first is because the translation from french to english is rooster, which the animal I've created is. The second reason, is that this work is representative of the penis.
Over the past four years, during my undergrad, I have heard time and time again that works of art more often than not, contain fallic symbol after fallic symbol. I am still not sure how I feel about t this Freudian concept of men wanting to have sex with their moms and women wishing they had penises. Aparently it all stems from our subconcious and rawrawraw penispenispenis. I don't really know Freud's theories too well because it is usually at that time in my art history class, that my eyes start to get heavy and I have have dreams of waving hello to people on the street but instead of a hand I would have a penis at the end of my arm...I wonder what that means?
Anyways, I made a 6 1/2 foot Coq out of toilet paper rolls. The rolls I collected over a period of time, asking everyone I know to save their toilet paper rolls so I would have enough. I was lucky enough to have a friend who lived in a small town with a toilet paper factory so he supplied me with quite a bit of spare rollage. Why toilet paper? Art is shit. Look up Piero Manzoni here. Everything has been done before and no matter what we try to do chances are we are ripping some one else's idea to some degree. The toilet paper rolls for me represent bringing people together through something we all do.
This piece being double sided took quite a long time to complete but I was very pleased with the outcome of it... being in my parents front hallway...

OK I don't know what is going on, but this isn't allowing me to open photos to put up for posting. Aggravating is a good work for how I'm feeling with trying to update this blog right now. Ahh

"COQ"

This is the beginning of my work for my graduation show at Bishop's. It is a combination of wood, toilet paper rolls, glue and acrylic paint.