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Self
Portrait as Sculptural Extrusion
Personality
Conflict, pencil on paper, 50" wide
This
drawing is based on different graffiti styles renderings of my
last name overlapped on top of each other
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Self
Portrait as Sculptural Extrusion and
Personality Conflict
2004
foamboard,
tape, and pencil on paper
A
graffiti-font version of my last name is built in tapered panels
so it looks like a 3D sculptural “projection”. I have
worked with this graffiti signature in recent projects to play
at creating my own “Mission School Alter-Ego” (I have
lived and worked in the Mission district for almost ten years
and am not considered in this category). This version tries to
pull in a variety of influences and multiple identities to question
categories of authorship and originality, referencing Mission
School art stardom, graffiti art, CAD and vector drawings, ex-San
Francisco artist Stephen Hendee, and finally, myself.
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