| The
title comes from a Michael Franti song. Franti is a hip-hop artist
who first gained notice in the early '90s with The Disposable Heroes
of Hiphopricy, a politically-oriented rap duo in the finest Public
Enemy tradition. The song in question is from this album, and deals
with the Gulf War. Franti, for those keeping score, continued on
to greater success with Spearhead, spoken word tours, and the like.
Another batch of terrific music worth checking out. Oh, yeah, you
were going to waste your allowance on Puff Daddy. Whatever.
This
painting is the earliest acrylic on this website. There were six
or seven more paintings before this one, but they've long since
been sold or given out as Christmas presents. At this point in time,
I was more or less playing around and learning what I could do with
the medium; I was still in the process of finding my voice. The
photograph doesn't really show how much paint is on this canvas;
various lumps and globs are scattered across the canvas, as the
paint was quite thick.
Also,
note the color blending in the bottom-right. This was still two
years away from Watercolors on Canvas
(note all the straight lines), but it's interesting in an early
work. |
