2014 • 15.25″ x 29″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets
The iconic first line of the even more iconic novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Louisville’s own, Hunter S. Thompson. It marks the time when the “drugs began to take hold” on a journey from LA to Las Vegas in a rented convertible.
This is from a series created from imagery derived solely from pictographs found in my collection of wingding and dingbat computer fonts.
Starting from a large selection of these symbols and shapes I made associations and pairings to match preconceived ideas or allowing them to inspire their own themes.
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