ROY the lobster

Meet Roy, recently murdered in a swift and humane manner. However handsome you were when you captivated me with your huge fanning tail and fierce feelers, our greed got the better of us. Your eyes told me a thousand tales under the sea. In death, you had me confounded about living. Yet, you were tasty.

Dream of the Ladybirds

Inspired by a great illustrator, daniel egnéus.
I pale, but I try.


ps>> EM, this is the painting i was messing up while talking to you on the phone. ;p

Interim

Here's why i hesitate to feature artists that i love. I find it completely difficult to bring myself to post my own work here anymore. Ah well. Here's an inked over painting of a photograph i printed. I probably love ink as much as i love... ice-cream. *slurp*

Lisa Yuskavage

~~~~~Day, Oil on Linen, 77 x 62 inches, 1994

Isn't the light amazing? The mood is perfect in each of her paintings. Whether it is a semblance of innocence or of eroded/ corrupted beauty, I won't say. Her work is just too loaded. There are many articles about femininity and the male gaze about her work, so i won't even talk about feminism, porn pin-ups, or her agenda. She appeals terribly to my penchant for confrontational sexuality. I'm helpless. She's admirable even more so with the fact that she's worked the paintings to the level of brilliance that the old masters like Rembrandt and Goya have.



~~~~~Biting the Red Thing, Oct 18, 2006

This last painting i could have caught in exhibition here a few weeks ago but i didn't. Imagine it standing at 1.2m, the pie in the painting looking so thick you could flick some off on your finger. I still kick myself when i think about it.


~~~~~ Pieface, Oil on linen, 48 x 40 1/4 x 2 inches, 2008

Break in Berlin

From Spring Break-Berlin!

sleepless on cinco de mayo when i should be out having some tequilas and wearing funny hats. it's been rainy these past days and i've been addicted to sleeping again. which probably explains why i'm sleepless at 2.30 in the morning. speaking of which, i am reminded of my underachieving days in Berlin *wink wink*, so before i update my blog with the work of another artist that i admire, i'll leave you with this.

funny how cemeteries and memorials tend to be some of my most favourite haunts. tho i'm not really a fan of peter's, here is eisenman's kickass holocaust memorial (love love love):

From Spring Break-Berlin!