dingbat

2014 • 22.5″ x 17.75″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets

I’ve lived in the middle of Louisville and in apartments on the outskirts and a couple of places in between. I’ve lived on and off of two college campuses. I never saw the amount of strays that I did when I got to San Antonio. I saw generations of cats living in the dumpster the day I showed up. Back lit against the skyline from high up on upper Fredericksburg Rd.

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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2014 • 15.75″ x 33.25″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets

We’ve all been there. We realized as it happened the gateway those railroad crossings can be from one reality into another. Which side is right and which side is wrong is rather relative though.

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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2014 • 15.25″ x 29″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets

I was going to make a piece for a group show for refugee relief with the theme being depictions of refugee children, citizens of the world. I assembled the component pieces into an illustration of suffering brown children living someplace hot, making for compelling television entertainment.

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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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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2014 • 19.25″ x 25.75″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets

Meant as a foil to the “Free Range Chicken” piece this painting highlights how odd it is to picture our food as an industrial product rather than one made with love in a kitchen by a grandmotherly figure.

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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2014 • 19.25″ x 28″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets

There are urban chickens and their country cousins the free rangers. There must be some yuppie chickens out there too making a life in the suburbs too. I can’t imagine closely packed houses on postage stamp lots segmented off by warped, sun bleached privacy fences being home to chickens. The constant barking of the pit bulls next door would seem to really hurt egg production and the judgmental Christians, worrying more about their property value than their immortal souls, would surely be shooting daggers from their eyes. But this is happening, I hear. Whatever.

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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2014 • 19.25″ x 30″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets

Liberals, if they eat meat at all, LOVE them some free ranging chicken. It isn’t just food, it’s a metaphor…and VERY likely to sell.

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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2014 • 19.25″ x 25.5″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets

I don’t know if it is another hipster trend of if raising chickens in the city limits is a post postmodern return to tradition of when people had a little control over their food supply. Maybe some of us will be better prepared for the collapse of civilization than others. Maybe I’ll get hungry and eat them AND their chickens.

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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2014 • 15.5″ x 33″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets

The American dream…to willingly live your entire adult life as a debt starved wage slave to the banks in a cracker box, cookie cutter, vinyl clad house in a soulless manufactured “community” of identical structures occupied by racially and economically like-minded individuals of similar political persuasions.

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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2014 • 19.5″ x 35″
acrylic, spray paint on used fence pickets

Many of America’s cities were built with a light rail system in place. 50 years later tracks were paved over for buses. Now cities are looking to the promise of light rail to rejuvenate abandoned downtowns and ease commuter gridlock after everyone bought a car, hit the interstate and drove to the suburbs.

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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