2011-2016 | ronlaboray

Drawing and Time:

“Matter of Fact Drawings”

“Little Richard’s Almanac” contains a series of drawings and paintings mirroring the mixed-up and rearranged condition of mass culture. This series “Matter of Fact” drawings utilizes found data from internet searches, satellite television channel guides, and random information obtained through advertising, social other public media, I see the drawings as historical documents recording current cultural conditions and archiving information for future social scientists and art historians.

These drawings represent points along a time lines that include common facts and known histories, science, collections describing our shared world, invented fictions and cultural myths, which compel hope and demonstrate important values.

The images within the drawings originate from photographic and painted images of important historical moments, scientific illustrations, pop culture elements like comic books, television, advertising and film, and visual information supporting myths, and conspiracy.

These pen and ink drawings operate using appropriated laws from science like “The Law of Superposition” which is a way to tell geological time. The older information, which came first in time, is on bottom and the newer more recent information is on top. Drawing traditions also lend to deciphering the time lines. Clarity and overlap are used in creating a since of time through distance, detail and sharpness.

In the end, the drawings frame a narrative of humanity and demonstrate the information and ideas that are current and accessible to most everyone. The drawings include those things we have in common like origins and final or prime examples, and the ideas, hopes and beliefs we share within myths, religion, science, and our idea of place and self. This series of drawings and the following series then informed several small paintings on canvas.

After the last portrait of Henry the 8th all the state birds of America fight for the first object in space.

After the last portrait of Henry the 8th all the state birds of America fight for the first object in space.

Under feet of Smurfs the first photograph is the backdrop to the last battleship of WWII

The Milky Way Galaxy includes all the poisonous mushrooms of North America and the dollar bill folded to show George Washington as a penis.

Obscured by a Soviet chart of UFO s the first explosion of an atomic bomb and the last meeting between Lee and Jackson are joined using the Law of Superposition

With an image of the last battle of the French and Indian War on the horizon, the first image of Mars form Mars is obscured by examples of German butterflies.

The last man on the Moon and the oldest icon of the first pope separated by all the state flowers of the United States.

Behind Oliver North's war ribbons we witness the first genetically modified sheep.

Bigfoot was before semaphore and the gun that killed Lincoln.

From the point of Archaic tools, the future includes the gun that killed Arch Duke Ferdinand and the first image of Mickey Mouse.

The first appearance of Marvel’s Hulk in a garden of the first genetically modified food filled with all the snskes of North America.

At Play in the Fields of Our Stuff - Eastern Tennessee University

near the original Ferris wheel, Green Arrow and the first Lone Ranger watch the colors of the most recent triple crown winner run.

near the original Ferris wheel, Green Arrow and the first Lone Ranger watch the colors of the most recent triple crown winner run.

The first apperance of the Green Arrow and the last battle of the Roman Empire are behind the flag colors of two most populated countries

The first appearance of Marvel's Hulk in the garden of the first genetically modified foods is obscured by the colors of all the state flowers of the U.S.