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  • HOME
  • DRAWING
    • THE OLD VIEW FROM NOWHERE (ongoing)
    • 36 DORITOS
    • SEVERAL LEDGERS
    • AMALGAMATION OF GENERALIZATION
    • TUMULT
    • SOUTH OF HEAVEN
    • FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB
    • START AS YOU WILL GO ON
    • DECOY
  • SCULPTURE
    • MOUSEBALL
    • ARMOUR . CONQUER . BOUNTY
    • SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD
    • RETREAT
    • PROTEST CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN
    • THERE WAS A TIME WHEN FIRE WAS THE END OF ALL THINGS
    • MINIATURES AND MULTIPLES
    • SHOUT OUTS!
    • APPARENTLY/APPARENTLY NOT
  • VIDEO
    • LAST WORD IN LONESOME IS ME
    • 13 INSTANCES
    • BURNING OF THE NAUVOO TEMPLE
    • 52 USED SHIRTS
    • DEMOS, COVERS, UNRELEASED
    • STAKEOUT!
    • A LITTLE BIT OF NOTHING
  • PRINT
    • EPIGRAPHS/EPIGRAMS
    • PURE BOOTY
    • MOUSEBALL
    • ALL WORDS ARE EMPTY
    • NAUVOO SUITE
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • METALHEADS AND PITBULLS
    • OUT OF THE FRAME
    • 13 DAYS
    • MENISCUS
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All Words Are Empty

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Description
This project combines Roman Tkaczyk’s Illustrator drawings of domestic objects and imagined explosions with my text drawings of Death Metal fan’s  tattoos.                 Functioning like commercial street advertisements both in the design and in the context of the kiosk, these posters humorously reference extreme forms of youth             boredom and rebellion, and suburban excess through implied violence and destruction.  In this series we are interested in how the various texts act as a form of             absurd branding to the innocuous objects that they are juxtaposed with.

    collaboration w/ Roman Tkaczyk

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