Collage 06-08
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Because We Are Alive Now, 2007, Combined Media Collage, 15" x 11" x 5" -
Because We Are Alive Now (detail), 2007, Combined Media Collage, 15" x 11" x 5" -
Because We Are Alive Now (detail), 2007, Combined Media Collage, 15" x 11" x 5" -
Ryley Put Down the Game Controller and his Mind Exploded V.2, 2007, Combined Media Collage, Video, 17" x 17" x 8" -
Ryley Put Down the Game Controller and his Mind Exploded V.2 (detail), 2007, Combined Media Collage, Video, 17" x 17" x 8" -
Ryley Put Down the Game Controller and his Mind Exploded V.2 (detail), 2007, Combined Media Collage, Video, 17" x 17" x 8" -
Ryley Put Down the Game Controller and his Mind Exploded V.2 (detail), 2007, Combined Media Collage, Video, 17" x 17" x 8" -
Ryley Put Down the Game Controller and his Mind Exploded V.2 (detail), 2007, Combined Media Collage, Video, 17" x 17" x 8" -
Bell Road, 2007, Game Boy, Combined Media Collage, 11" x 10" x 6" -
Bell Road (detail), 2007, Game Boy, Combined Media Collage, 11" x 10" x 6" -
Because We'd Go On Picnics While My Brothers and Sisters Were at School, 2007, Combined Media Collage, 26" x 26" x 6" -
Because We'd Go On Picnics While My Brothers and Sisters Were at School (detail), 2007, Combined Media Collage, 26" x 26" x 6" -
Bunny Froo Froo Beat Box, 2007, Combined Media Collage, 13" x 9" x 3.5" -
Ryley Put Down His Game Controller and His Mind Exploded, 2006, Combined Media Collage, 32" x 6.5" -
Ryley Put Down His Game Controller and His Mind Exploded, 2006, Combined Media Collage, 32" x 6.5" -
Chasing Eden, 2007, Graphite, Pastel, Collage, Thread, Wood, 40" x 27" x 5" -
Chasing Eden (detail), 2007, Graphite, Pastel, Collage, Thread, Wood, 40" x 27" x 5" -
For Us the Truth is a Verb, 2007, Graphite, Pastel, Collage, Thread, Wood, 36" x 23" -
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Delightenment Installation, 2006, Multimedia, 13' x 10' x 6' -
Disco Earth (installation detail), 2006, Disco Ball, Globe Continents, Gold Leaf, 13" x 13" x 13"
Throughout life, individually and communally, beliefs we once held true are often reveled to be contrary to our original understanding. This series explores this phenomenon as pertaining to nostalgia of an aging dream for future national and personal prosperity in America. As the destructive nature of global colonization becomes more apparent, the difference between America’s role as a purveyor freedom or as a reckless tyrant is becoming progressively ambiguous.