Yearbook spreads: the lake

'Escape from Seacliff'


'Oh holy desert'


'Ecotone, duh'


'Bambi porn'

When will you stop feeling sorry for yourself? That is the question my portion of the yearbook is addressing. It is so easy to dwell upon our inadequacies, to take the 'grass is always greener' stance. It is always the others' fault, never our own. Get over yourself. Find a way to fill your own void. Go buy a new pair of jeans or something, please.

I have chosen the lake as a metaphor for the self. How Italian of me. As a reflective surface, a mirror, the lake conjures up connotations of self contemplation, consciousness, revelation, whatever. It is also much more than that. It is also a fluid mass of transparency. Will you be too scared to acknowledge your own hollow self? Or are you willing to drown. How deep are you willing to go? Whatever you do, stop talking so much, it does you no favors. Deep rivers run quiet.

I created the above four illustrations as yearbook spreads (there is also a fifth one, but that one is secret). I worked on them for 36 hours straight, surprisingly this time without the help of my little friend Adderall; just several cans of Howling Monkey soda, which were on sale. But they are not done yet. I need faces. I need bodies. I need you. So please, I am having a YEARBOOK SHOOT this FRIDAY THE 28th in the EAST 21ST BUILDING 6TH FLOOR for these spreads, and other spreads, of course. You see those semi-awkward negative spaces to the left or right of the drawings? That is where you will go. If you want to be part of the 'lake series,' please come Friday, no props necessary. I promise I will make you look awesome.

Cheers.

P.S. If you are interested in purchasing the originals of the 'lake series,' I am selling them for $44 each.