d’Arte Board

I’m hoping I’ll have a new safety-pin piece to post next week, but until then, walk with me down memory lane. 

The year is 2006, the world is marveling at the silly name and silky sounds of Gnarls Barkley’s first record, Superman Returns was moderately entertaining people in the theaters and Edmund Phelps was winning the Nobel Prize in Economics for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy. While I had leftovers from this thing.

I took those pieces and built this:

60″ x 12″, acrylic on canvas with safety-pins.  There is a full sized detail after the jump.

I’d made similar pieces with free hanging scraps before, but the previous versions were more constrained in their dimensions. When I narrowed this to 12 inches it felt like it needed to be longer, so I let it develop. It does make it hell to fit on a computer screen with any kind of detail though. Here is the full version so you can see the details. This is a much better photo than I usually have. Because I didn’t take it.

-JD

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