2012 • 48″ x 18″
acrylic, spray paint, fabric on panel
I’ve been interested in the logical absurdity of the Young Earth creationist knuckleheads for a while, but making fun of the willfully ignorant is too easy…there is more to be explored. The concept of geological time is tied to so much that exposes any theology as primitive superstition: topics such as Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Astronomy, Anthropology and Archeology give a better appreciation of the unique circumstances it took for us to be hear interpreting it all. That is the essence of these pieces, a truer appreciation of our humblingly minute moment in time rather than convincing ourselves we were an inevitable part of some god’s plan.
The tall format of this series and silhouetted subject matter at the top came to me while driving west towards a landfill at sunset. The back lit trucks on top of the layered mound of discarded modern artifacts and shitty diapers were a contrast of beauty and decay, landscape and landfill, timelessness and immediacy. I place the small insignificant human reference atop millions of years of layered history.
The first in the series, this gravel quarry was inspired by a drive outside San Antonio towards the Alamo Cement Company quarry.
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Brilliant….and a thousand years from now, our archeological offering to the future will be fossilized shitty diapers. Indeed. Love it.