Feng Shui C*** Fighter

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Comment by Resident Curator on December 17, 2012 at 11:14am

 Curator’s Comment:  

 

The layered printing in many of these works creates a wonderful stratified pictorial dynamic, especially when “accidental” connections between disparate images overlap and accentuate each other.  This piece in particular is richly covered by ornamental marks enveloping the figurative birds.  The black delineation of top image (keyblock?) helps keep the image fresh and gives a hierarchal advantage to the main subject.  The split vertical divide also organizes the space, though it doesn’t quite read as a formalized diptych.  The varied scale of the two birds adds interest as the smaller serves as an echo to the larger form on the left.  I especially like how the one on the right moves through a window or framed door- opening up the densely packed space into a visual retreat. It appears as through in addition to the pink and purple paisley designs and roosters there’s a reference to topography, or map contours in the underlying blue and yellow. This is an intriguing layering of information, and perhaps draws from different bodies of related work.