Taggin’ The Light Fantastic

I’ve always been interested in ephemera. My own poetics tend toward favouring the utterance of the line over the semantics of the line. I like the way the utterance projects away from the subject to simultaneously create and inhabit a poetic space for the orator and  the auditor.

Shepard Fairey In Studio

Shepard Fairey went viral in 2008 when his “Hope” poster caught the attention of millions of Obama supporters. And while this work went on to spawn inevitable parodies throughout teh interspherez (“Nope,” “Soap,” and “Dope” being among my favourites– see post-jump) Fairey more than fluked out after a career of already more than twenty years. [...]

Device To Root Out Evil-1997

Currently on display at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB. Dennis Oppenheim’s “Device To Root Out Evil” (1997) depicts “[a] country church is seen balancing on it’s steeple, as if it had been lifted by a terrific force and brought to the site as a device or method of rooting out evil forces.” (oppenheim)