Gouache on paper

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Clay, bronze, and other mixed mediums

The Obamat world isn’t without its complications. The ongoing future war between the Obamats (an alien race) and the human race continues in here. We have those two “large” structures formed that are representations of the homes of the Obamats. Around them are several little Obamats of all ages sitting or standing around. Unnoticeable to them are the human soldiers in the back who plan to infringe this miniature world that is created.

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Digitally taken with a Nikon D80

In here, even more intimate encounters are recorded. The photographs are made from hidden locations unbeknown to the couple that is shown. Does the intimate activity remain private or is it reduced to an everyday intimate portrayal found in life and the media?

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Digitally taken with a Nikon D80

What does it mean to be invited to somebody’s place and not be a part of the actual activity that they participate in? If you watch them with keen eyes, are you a voyeur or an observer? Here, interactions between a couple and the environment takes place and a story is made from outside the room where the activity takes place

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Digitally taken with Nikon D80

A simple observation with strangers in a bar begins with sitting at the bar and then taking a pitcher of beer down to the back room where a strange game of chess is initiated.

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Gelatin silver print

A part of a series of black and white photographs that show an observation of a nude man given the freedom to be wild in a studio shoot. The fact that he is nude gives the photographs a sense of liberation not found in clothed shoots. The next step is to be continued later on.

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Found material modified and painted with acrylic

Voyeurism. What is its true definition? We might as well say that our whole lives are a part of a voyeuristic journey through our eyes or other senses. We always feel the connection to others. How do we expect to react when we see the acts of an old man receiving fellatio from a young woman in a public restroom? Must we shut the door and let them be in peace? However, when they are that tiny, they tend not to be noticed until it is too late. And then what? Must we leave them alone?

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Oil on canvas

Here’s a much better view of the painting without the light spots that are absorbed by the colors. This is a continuation of the Obamat series where there is an ongoing invasion of this extraterrestrial species that take form of many world leaders and incorporate themselves in human society.

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The Little Naturalist’s Field Trip — Gladys Nilsson

Her Big Tree – 1999 — Gladys Nilsson
Boschian idealization of bodies and the play of purple and yellow shows a woman surrounded by animals who are modified in so many ways and creates a new world that you can emerge in.

Toot n’ Toe – 1969 — Jim Nutt
Adaptation of comic book characters and the creation of an elaborate atmosphere of sex, violence, and comedy is portrayed here.

Plumb - 2004 — Jim Nutt
A delicate combination of displacement and humor takes place in this stylized portrait of a creature that plays with an irrational idea of facial construction. The figure itself almost does not seem real but the one eye that is proportional is staring at us causing us to rethink the rational implications of its distortions.

Climat de Sensualite – 1988 — Ed Paschke
A play on the facial representations that remove the face from being purely representational or figurative and gives it an abstract quality. There is also an abstraction with the negative space and the positive space implied by the female body on the right. There is also a hint of gender politics indicated by such representations.

Force of Nature – 1990 — Ed Pachke
This is another, of course, depiction of bodily and facial representations that are famous with Paschke’s work that break down race politics and also the issue of value using a similar palette to the Apple Macintosh logo design in the 80s that is symbolized in the silhouette of a poodle. There is a play of words on the title where the word nature is forced rather than being “all natural”.