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