Artist Statement

Are we nothing to you?

metadata - the narrative - the why - the myth - the ideology

- love - all things conquers

- elite competition for status

Beauty and the beast is the frame and the context and the lens through which we perceive the picture

frame - the context - the where - the invisible home of the stage - outside of the frame

- the intersection between the elite and the dispossessed

- the parking lot - a home for cars or a home for the homeless

scene - the action / conflict - the what - the stage - the visible

Rose has wilted

Beauty rushes back in beasts sports car

Jumps out of sports car

Beast collapsed on ground

He appears to be a homeless man

Even a junkie who has od

She is cradling him

Promising to marry him

model - the object / subject - the who - clothes, hair, make up, shoes, hair, hat

- the beasts hot car

- beauty has beast car

- beast has shopping cart

narrative - from start to end the narrative is on display

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_of_Canada

- Let the snake that eats its tail, eat it's tail

2017 october statement

there is one beauty and the beast and they are one

beast is beauty and beauty is beast

the amygdala saves the cerebral cortex

and the cerebral cortex saves the amygdala

the werewolf is the myth

the princess werewolf is the new story

awaken the inner beast through life’s old door

olfaction

smell can quickly and completely overcome beauty’s defenses

to reveal raw fear revulsion and joy

the anime poses are the unlocking mechanism needed to access the power up