OliveOyl
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This was a series (Certitude, Foolery and Dirt) that came from the following thoughts. (1) Was wondering how to get more “flora and fauna” into my work because painting “the peeps” can sometimes get boring. (2) After mulling around with ideas of “tribes” (in politics), it was funny to learn (didn’t know!) that groups of monkeys are also called tribes. (3) Was noticing that within the wide variety of different monkeys, the females look just like the males and they’re just uglier versions of us.
So out of that swirl, I imagined that each tribe’s “king” would (have to) be a male, and decided which qualities would have made him the king in the first place. I also thought of coats of arms and LOOSELY took the crown-banner-shields-supporter elements to incorporate as the tribe’s identifier. It’s not a flattering portrait of either monkeys or men. Sorry not. And I also can’t imagine that anybody would ever want these large (30x40) monkey heads on their walls.
But oh well.
I managed to work them, and all the baggage that came along with them...out of my system.
So out of that swirl, I imagined that each tribe’s “king” would (have to) be a male, and decided which qualities would have made him the king in the first place. I also thought of coats of arms and LOOSELY took the crown-banner-shields-supporter elements to incorporate as the tribe’s identifier. It’s not a flattering portrait of either monkeys or men. Sorry not. And I also can’t imagine that anybody would ever want these large (30x40) monkey heads on their walls.
But oh well.
I managed to work them, and all the baggage that came along with them...out of my system.