Slaughterhouse-Five
Print for the upcoming show at Benjamin Benjamin gallery in Portland.
"I have absolutely no idea if this image is any good. I'm definitely too close to it, having just finished it a few hours ago. SlaughterHouse Five is far and away my most favorite book. I first read Vonnegut's Galapagos when I was in High School as part of a book assignment. The other novels on that list seemed incredibly boring to me at the time, and Galapagos was the only one that the English teacher (name escapes me...) said came close to Science Fiction, so that's what I went for. After that, I was hooked, and went for Slaughterhouse Five next.
Slaughterhouse Five has shaped so much about my life and perception of it- how I feel about war, and reality, and death. It's an alternately sweeping and small novel, and I can't imagine it any differently than how it was written. Many times reading a book, I'll think- "oh, it could be better if the author had done X instead." But Slaughterhouse Five is written with an immutable authenticity- it could not have been any other way. Which is clearly a very Tralfamadorian concept, come to think of it.
This piece is probably my most ambitious- containing more actual drawing than maybe 3 other of my prints combined. I couldn't boil Slaughterhouse down to one image or moment as I usually do with my film prints. I wanted it to appear like how the book describes the Tralfamadorian novel- you see the story all at once and have to perceive the entire structure as a whole work of beauty, with all it's ups and downs.
Thank you for reading, and if this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
Slaughterhouse-Five
Print for the upcoming show at Benjamin Benjamin gallery in Portland.
"I have absolutely no idea if this image is any good. I'm definitely too close to it, having just finished it a few hours ago. SlaughterHouse Five is far and away my most favorite book. I first read Vonnegut's Galapagos when I was in High School as part of a book assignment. The other novels on that list seemed incredibly boring to me at the time, and Galapagos was the only one that the English teacher (name escapes me...) said came close to Science Fiction, so that's what I went for. After that, I was hooked, and went for Slaughterhouse Five next.
Slaughterhouse Five has shaped so much about my life and perception of it- how I feel about war, and reality, and death. It's an alternately sweeping and small novel, and I can't imagine it any differently than how it was written. Many times reading a book, I'll think- "oh, it could be better if the author had done X instead." But Slaughterhouse Five is written with an immutable authenticity- it could not have been any other way. Which is clearly a very Tralfamadorian concept, come to think of it.
This piece is probably my most ambitious- containing more actual drawing than maybe 3 other of my prints combined. I couldn't boil Slaughterhouse down to one image or moment as I usually do with my film prints. I wanted it to appear like how the book describes the Tralfamadorian novel- you see the story all at once and have to perceive the entire structure as a whole work of beauty, with all it's ups and downs.
Thank you for reading, and if this isn't nice, I don't know what is."