2006-2007
These drawings remove the narrated conflict from a theatrical space of the Epic Ink and place it on a map of Mars. Figures guard, patrol, gather reconnaissance and fight each other across the foreign topography of an alien planet, across the mythic features of the Roman god of war.
Using the planet Mars serves multiple purposes. It removes the effect of warfare from the specific and the political, and places it in the realm of imagination, where arguably, war always begins. It places the conflict in the realm of mythology as well as the realm of current headlines. I find it perplexing that the same human ingenuity that thrusts surface to air missiles creates the rockets that took NASA’s probes to the surface of the red planet. By extrapolation, this series asks if humanity will take its conflicts off planet even as the manned exploration and eventual habitation of Mars are planned. Finally, the title of the project also references popular culture.
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Epic 60
Mixed media on Lokta
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Epic 61
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Epic 62
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Epic 63
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Epic 65
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Epic 66
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Epic 67
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Epic 69
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Epic 71
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Epic 72
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Epic 73
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Epic 74
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Epic 75
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Epic 76
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Epic 77
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16″h x 42″w
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Epic 78
Mixed media on Lokta
16″h x 42″w
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Epic 81
Mixed media on Lokta
16″h x 42″w
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Epic 83
Mixed media on Lokta
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Epic 84
Mixed media on Lokta
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Epic 85
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Epic 89
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Epic 90
Mixed media on Lokta
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Epic 91
Mixed media on Lokta
60″h x 20″w