"Slings and Arrows" Print; Matte Canvas, Stretched, 1.25"

Hung for First Draft X Westwords’ Slippages, “Slings and Arrows,” influenced by the New York Hardcore Zines of the 1980s/90s, emulates xerox techniques using texture overlays, while incorporating typesetting to guide the eye and expose its interpolations and ambiguities.

In “Slings and Arrows,” I am proposing a kind of temporal slippage that situates the global socio-political status quo precisely where it was a century ago when Eliot penned “The Hollow Men” and “The Waste Land.”

Here, two unknown speakers discuss and quote a range of classic texts, shedding light on the sorry state of planetary affairs, underlaid by Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man,” The Vulgate (Latin Bible), and the plaque from the Spaceship Pioneer, suggesting the perpetuity of historical violence our global society cannot seem to be reprieved of.