WOOD

acrylic collage

6"x8"

Darrel Brannock, 2003




Transgression

August & September 2003 @

The Forgotten Works Gallery

THE CARPET IS MOVING

acrylic collage

6"X8"

Darrel Brannock, 2003



Transgression

August & September 2003 @

The Forgotten Works Gallery

This work utilizes some of the techniques I used in pieces of the "Unnatural Order" series. Instead of using altered, found-images I chose to create it digitally. Somewhere between automatic writing and automatic drawing lies the strange letters I allowed myself to write. I took a sampling of these symbol/characters and inverted them horizontally and vertically to creating a central character, which is emphasized by the red circle. The creature is meant to be a powerful manifestation of destructive possibility and a physical reminder of how mutated these notions are in relationship to the ways we must live or daily lives. The hybrid being encompasses air, water and earth, but lacks fire and lacks balance.



Gallery-wrapped canvas print US$950

This was the first one I completed in this series and it's from roughly a year and a half ago. The snake beetle is known for its ability to fight while retreating as well as its ability to cling onto prey while it tends to other matters. The chugget is a sad mutation that has created a flightless, defenseless yet tasty bird (?). Another Photoshop creation involving antique field studies, the final stretched size is 42"x57" and gallery-wrapped of course. The price for this item is US$1400 plus shipping.

This is part of a series of larger pieces I've done using found field drawings from the 19th century and newsfeed images as backgrounds. I try to create natural prey and predator pairings when I do this to offer context; their world is "purely mutated." Here, an innocent pocket monkey is admiring the insect specimen he has trapped in a glass. Hanging behind him is the rare and deadly octohawk. It's a silent killer of unsuspecting, tree-climbing animals...or at least it could be.



This stretched and gallery-wrapped 51"x57" canvas print can be yours for only US$1750 plus shipping.