"Self Potrait"
"Ode to Jawharp"
"Soap 1"
"Self Portrait"
"The Touch"
"The Rising" (Selected for permanent display at The Art Institute of Houston).
Created near Halloween, this horror-inspired piece provides a dual meaning and serves as a representation of a "Continuation of life".
Beginning on the left, you as the viewer are literally placed in the shoes of a person looking up at a doctor under a surgical lamp, thus implying being laid out on a table. In the next scene, it is apparent that the doctor is in the act of covering your body with the sheet, thus suggesting death. The final scene shows your hand in a "rising" position, suggesting life.
This is designed to be interpreted in two ways. In one case, this is near Halloween and with the hand in the traditional "rising" postion (popular among zombie-based material), this can be recieved in the literal sense as a physical zombie rising from the dead.
The second intended interpretation is in the deeper, spiritual sense. Through the observation that the operation lamp in the right scene has now changed, it represents the "light" as reported by Near Death Experience survivors. This is to represent an afterlife, or a spiritual "rising" in continuation of life after death.
Created near Halloween, this horror-inspired piece provides a dual meaning and serves as a representation of a "Continuation of life".
Beginning on the left, you as the viewer are literally placed in the shoes of a person looking up at a doctor under a surgical lamp, thus implying being laid out on a table. In the next scene, it is apparent that the doctor is in the act of covering your body with the sheet, thus suggesting death. The final scene shows your hand in a "rising" position, suggesting life.
This is designed to be interpreted in two ways. In one case, this is near Halloween and with the hand in the traditional "rising" postion (popular among zombie-based material), this can be recieved in the literal sense as a physical zombie rising from the dead.
The second intended interpretation is in the deeper, spiritual sense. Through the observation that the operation lamp in the right scene has now changed, it represents the "light" as reported by Near Death Experience survivors. This is to represent an afterlife, or a spiritual "rising" in continuation of life after death.
"Self Portrait"
"Burple Ice"
