Perpetually Regurgitating the Greats
Perpetually Regurgitating the Greats
Rachel Tandon, January 2015
8.5” x 11”
Digitally printed
This is my portion of the class-wide exquisite corpse, inspired by a piece created by the person in line before me (a snippet of which is pictured below). The piece before mine included many different references, some examples being memes, classical renderings of the male torso, a person vomiting, chinese lettering, and the western symbol for “prohibited.” Inspired by this semi-overwhelming layering of references and the strong tie to modern culture with the meme, I decided to draw and digitally collage a girl, perhaps dressed in clothes from the club, puking out iconic Greco-Roman sculptures. Making this piece made me question my place as an artist and my position to be creating such a pairing and statement. I realized that just like all of modern culture, I will never be fully separate from my past absorption of references—all of the things I have seen, all of the art, all of the life-experiences, will inevitably shape the art I make—they are the banks my mind subconsciously pulls from. For this, I am eating the classic Greco-Roman sculptures in the second drawing. Although Greco-Roman sculptures aren’t the direct inspiration for modern culture today, everything—culture, society, art—seems to be based in the recycling and reuse of references.
(front)
(back)
inspiration (2″ x 2″ selection from original 8.5″ x 8.5″ piece sent to me)
February 11th, 2015
by Rachel Tandon
Perpetually Regurgitating the Greats
Perpetually Regurgitating the Greats
Rachel Tandon, January 2015
8.5” x 11”
Digitally printed
This is my portion of the class-wide exquisite corpse, inspired by a piece created by the person in line before me (a snippet of which is pictured below). The piece before mine included many different references, some examples being memes, classical renderings of the male torso, a person vomiting, chinese lettering, and the western symbol for “prohibited.” Inspired by this semi-overwhelming layering of references and the strong tie to modern culture with the meme, I decided to draw and digitally collage a girl, perhaps dressed in clothes from the club, puking out iconic Greco-Roman sculptures. Making this piece made me question my place as an artist and my position to be creating such a pairing and statement. I realized that just like all of modern culture, I will never be fully separate from my past absorption of references—all of the things I have seen, all of the art, all of the life-experiences, will inevitably shape the art I make—they are the banks my mind subconsciously pulls from. For this, I am eating the classic Greco-Roman sculptures in the second drawing. Although Greco-Roman sculptures aren’t the direct inspiration for modern culture today, everything—culture, society, art—seems to be based in the recycling and reuse of references.
(front)
(back)
inspiration (2″ x 2″ selection from original 8.5″ x 8.5″ piece sent to me)