Portfolio > Archive includes The Next Migration, The Revelation, and Happy Hour at the Academy series



In the second iteration of the Splash series, I focus on form and color in beach toys abandoned like plastic relics of summer’s interest. I redeploy them as metaphors for the phenomenon of becoming a celebrity. Here color ‘works’ as the labor done to gain entry for media notice. The essential form/self is obfuscated or complicated in the venture of becoming colorful tools at service to our need for distraction.

Pulp Trinity: What would Barbie do?
Pulp Trinity: What would Barbie do?
acrylic and graphite on paper
22 x 30"
2007

private collection