Time and Random Data in Sequence

“Time And Random Data In Sequence”

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channel guides, and random information obtained through advertising, social other public media, I see the paintings as historical documents recording current cultural conditions and archiving information for future social scientists and art historians.

These paintings represent information points along a time lines that include common facts and known histories, science, collections. The time lines describe our shared world, invented fictions and cultural myths, which compel hope and demonstrate important values. The images within the paintings 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 compositions 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. Painting 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 paintings 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. Some of these results have been scanned and turned into the more recent Topographies series.

Three quarters of the first battle of Antietam and one forth of the last batt;e of the French and Indian War are backdrops to 53 Snoopies.

Surrounded by McDonalds logo colors, the Jetsons float above the oldest image of the Devil and one third of the last image of Henry the Eighth.

The logo colors of the WNBA teams drift in forn of an image of the first airship and the first Emperor of Rome placed using the law of Superposition

The strata of Yogi Bear appear before two thirds of the first baseball card and one 7th of the first Pharaoh of Egypt

“The colors of the Professional Bowling Association sponsors obscure the last image of Lincoln and are home to seven Silver Surfers

A chart of the most poisonous snakes and a guide to semaphore obscure the gun that klled John Lennon.

four occurrences of Kermit floating above colors of the most recent Super Bowl sponsors with a far away image of the last battle of the American Revolutionary war

The colors of the most recent Olympic sponsors and the universe are home to 6 Caspers.

a dozen Homer Simpsons obscuring the oldest European fresco of native Americans and the last US military airship.

The first female doctor, the last_Pharaoh of Egypt under Hello Kitties.