"Isms"

2008-2009 Drywall, clay, tree branch, wood, paper, acrylic, rusted metal, ink, and string.

One day in an art class, I had a sudden bout of class-ditching-fever along with a good spell of angst which led to a random excursion off campus. I ended up in an alley between a car mechanic's garage and a flower shop across the street from a grocery store. There was an old building behind the flower shop being remodeled and some hunks of drywall were left leaning up against a wall. So naturally, I picked up the biggest piece. I transported this chunk of drywall all the way back to school in a small shopping cart that had made its way across the street from the grocery store. I might have drawn some attention as I lugged the awkward drywall slab into the back of my car in the parking lot. A couple of months later, I ended up with this:

 

I was thinking quite a bit about a whole bunch of different world-views and ideologies at the time. Just trying to figure out how things were and enjoying getting quite lost in the experience. I went through a bunch of philosophical sort of titles for this piece such as nihilism, existentialism, relativism, theism, deism, and ended up just titling it 'isms.' I think it is a nice representation of the multiple-ism sort of ism I was going through at the time.