On the Carpet (2009)
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Ink sketch with solid fill colors texturized with various papers.
Print original: 16 x 10-1/2 in.
Detail and description
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When I first started this I got stuck and didn't know what to do with it. It was a simple ink drawn outline sketch. After discussing the shallow emptiness of so many young men with a longtime friend, I came up with the idea that instead of shading and giving the drawing a more 3-dimensional look, I'd use solid colors to fill in the spaces making it look very flat (to represent a lacking in depth of character and only the shallow seductiveness shows through on the surface (which is done with textured papers to give a cutout look).
The cutouts are like the pieces of our lives we put together based on fashion, advertising, marketing, consumerism--all the things we are in modern society that have stripped many of us of our ability to have depth of character and a sense of moral conviction. Not that sex is bad or wrong, not that nudity is bad or wrong but that we've traded the things that made us more human and compassionate with the shallow two-dimensional values if instant gratification, self-aggrandizement, entitlement and greed.
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