Ennui Au Jus

10/2012 — 46.5″ x 27.5″

Acrylic on used fence pickets.

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This was the first graphic poster type design on used fence pickets. How many fence pickets have I gone through since then?! I still have some scraps from the first batch. It is still some of the best wood I’ve been able to acquire to this day. Still in great shape.

This was also one of the first pieces where I combined existential states of mind with food. This is something else I should revisit. I never did do this enough with texan food. I can fix that mistake with Chicago pizza and hotdogs, and Champaign sweetcorn.

I used a method to make things seem a bit aged. With some history. I wasn’t caught up in precise realism. It was more fun…at some point I got caught up in trying to make everything super tight. Blah. I need to go back to the old way. EXPRESSIONISM!

Posted by Dick Van der Wurst

Having descended down into South Texas through the Hill Country one day long ago, Dick never claimed to be Texan, but his German heritage and love for tacos is something he shares with the inhabitants of the region. Having earned an MFA from Miami University, OH, he spent the worst years of his life up north, maturing artistically and refining an Iconoclasmatic Pop Art™ style shaped by his experiences as a recovering Catholic, cancer survivor and optimistic existentialist. He lives and works in his humble turquoise studio-home (Dick’s WurstHaus Art Shanty) near downtown San Antonio.

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