This is a complicated piece. It started as a collaboration with fellow artists, one of those Artists passed away a few years ago. This piece is about angry guys exploiting women because of traumatic childhoods. The exploration of feelings related to a mother/father wound, a significant other wound, or simple rejection has the power to disintegrate. As such, the piece is fragmented like a collage or tapestry of images.
The upside down cow (subject matter) is recognizable yet disorienting. To expand on this idea, the gold leaf along the cracked gap calls attention to the broken. The fragility & brokenness of life is recalled intrinsically when observing the tombstone. Nothing is as it should be, but we’re still here.
This piece is an attempt to mend the past. Progress in life is difficult without addressing our past sins. The dominant emotion here is anger as evidence by the broken wood panel. That panel was then screwed together on plexiglass showing the utilitarian nature of our fixing. However, the gold leaf coating the edges of broken wood panel represent God, and His ability to make broken things beautiful and precious.
There are millions of fish bumper stickers in the world. The Jesus-Fish is known as a common symbol, a symbol that points to one of Jesus’s miracles.
This cow skull followed Ed since 2001. It was a fixture in his studio in San Francisco. It traveled with the band. It made its way to work. Then, in 2021, the bones became art. Titled “From Death, to Beauty” this beautiful piece is part of “The Old Made New” series.
Redeeming the past is possible. Going back, to go forward takes work. This #artWORK is a time capsule. 20years ago this #artWORK was a table that sat in the middle of my first apartment in San Francisco. The layers upon layers (Front and BACK!) of artists who collaborated to create a timeless imprint of themselves is captured, accentuated and preserved in a resin casing. There’s a balancing act happening, like a beautifully choreographed dance, of the past, present and future intermingle in harmony.