I work on a piece or
two and when it’s done I photograph it. And somehow, it is then that the flaws---become
more evident. This is typical of me. Anyway after viewing these pieces on my previous entry I decided
that something was problematic with them prepositionally.
Something was missing. It wasn’t enough that they had been painted with
pouches empty of ammunition, grenades, bananas, and whatever else
one would normally stuffs into them. I
decided that it was the neutral backgrounds that were really bothering me. There needed to be something else going on to
create more tension and contrast. I
could have placed the vests on a table or hanging from hooks on a wall. But that would have been too predictable, too
literal. So I decided to introduce a
bit more irony by changing the context and placing each vest in the midst of an
elegantly patterned background.
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