My college is reading a book about the LA riots and so I made art in response to the readings. 

It's a Cook Book is a digital collage based on the design of the Los Angeles Police Department flag, with super imposed images of the Rodney King beating video. It's a heavily distorted mess because the media and City hall have greatly distorted our perceptions of the police. 

Any thoughts, even negative, are encouraged. Let me know what you think. 

Novocaine, The Blue Collar King said
i feel like i should be able to see what is going on in the picture. but i cant.

i just dont get art.

if you didnt explain it to me i would still be sitting here scratching my head.

 

sorry n shit rob. 

I feel like that's perfectly reasonable. No need to be sorry. It's a very heavily layered image. 

I would have loved to have had the rodney king stuff be easier to see but the original video was so grainy that I had to choose between either clarity or honesty. 

Thanks for looking at it and commentign though. I do appreciate it. 

Thanks guys! yeah, digital stuff comes out cleaner because it's not restricted to my hand movements, and i can redo shit a million times if I have to. I try to make them sloppy because I like sloppy but they do generally just have a sleekness. Thanks for looking. I'm curious what that album would sound like lol. 

My newest piece. I took the dripping thing a bit too seriously and decided to stick crayons in my hot glue gun. 

It was closed so we could install lol.

And it does kinda look like a butthole. Shit.