SEX, VIOLENCE, AND SCENES OF A DISTRESSING NATURE

 

(Gel Fineliner on A5 Paper)

One of those artworks which makes you think twice about what you're looking at. If this was a photograph or a sculpture, I'd probably use a readymade but, in this case, I kept to the rules I have for Skav Art and drew something from memory. A simple, iconic image, which most are familiar with.

The Proposition

(2B pencil on a 139mm x 87mm postcard)

 

A juxtapop piece, similar to the Cut-Price Holidays work that I did a few years ago. These juxtapops are meant to look like single comic-book frames with a completely unconnected common phrase in their speech bubbles. In this case, "I love you. Marry me." It was drawn on a blank postcard with the dimensions you see above, but the image itself measures 85mm x 48mm.

Cut-Price Holidays

(2B pencil on a 125mm x 75mm notecard)

 

Another juxtaposed pop-art style comic-book frame with an everyday smalltalk phrase.



The Laughing Girl

(2B pencil on a 139mm x 87mm postcard)

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A pop-art style piece depicting a single frame from a non-existent comic-book. When you take a frame from a comic-book and show it on its own, it can totally change the context of the characters and situations they depict. A frame from one which doesn't exist doesn't even allow you reference to the original and almost asks you to think of possible scenarios for it.

 

On it's own, it takes on a more symbolic from. Whether it's the acquisition of great power, wealth or knowledge by those too inexperienced to handle it, or an image that's a metaphor for the onset of adolescence, it can have different meanings whichever way you look at it.

 

Or it could simply be a fantasy image of a little girl that's suddenly discovered amazing magical powers.