For our MFA Group show at Loop Gallery my drawing became a blanket fort. (My Thanks to Raffy, Thea, and Jon for there contributions in making this fort. ) My drawings take their cue from retro future images and other works that proclaim a world view. These source images, while originally a form of propaganda, are now disconnected from their original context. They exists as islands of lost possibility afloat in the cultural stream. With our current cultural narrative in flux and all images gaining new context in an online space ,images our free to be put together into multiple individual assemblages. The assemblages create unique, vast, limited, genius or flawed world views.  There exists great anxiety and uncertainty as we try to find a narrative (or multiple coexisting narratives) that fit. My blanket fort displays an image created by an assemblage of influences I’ve drawn from the digital realm. It’s fabric softens the anxiety, exploration and creation of such images and emphasizes the notion of play in such a process. It’s size is clearly to small to fit my 6’2” frame, ( as well as the frames of others who explored it).  suggesting that their is room for the view to grow change and eventually become irrelevant itself. 

See the flickr set of others getting under the blanket fort.