This piece consists of two pieces of paper layered on top of each other. The top paper is cut around the donkey.
puzzle Time!
Addendum: None
This piece consists of two pieces of paper layered on top of each other. The top paper is cut around the donkey.
When you lift the top sheet off, it reveals what is underneath:
This was my first vaguely political drawing. I expressed distaste that George Bush had won the election and was being manipulated by Dick Cheney. I don't think I actually knew much about these issues, I just read about them in Mad Magazine or the like. I'm also unsure whether I was trying to poke fun at the apparently cryptic language of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" or whether I was just messing around. Both seem equally likely. On the back page, we have Bob "the hama-stopa", a donkey, a stylized "4" that is in danger of becoming a swastika, and a bird shooting lasers out of its eyes. At the top is "mar-yuh-loo", a mispronunciation of "Mary Lou" by the character Zero in Louis Sachar's young adult novel "Holes". I wonder why "gay" was written to describe the donkey, then vigorously crossed out?
This piece consists of two pieces of paper layered on top of each other. The top paper is cut around the donkey.
If Pens Could Talk, This is What they Would Talk About - By: Rollerball
Addendum: None, it's two sided
Side 1:
Side 2:
Once again, apologies for the time between posts; any semblance of routine dissolved when I graduated high school.
There are a lot of possible explanations for this piece. I used to like to collect pens. I liked the various textures and feelings or writing with different writing utensils. I wanted to be able to use all my pens at once. Thus, this. I characterized each of my various writing utensils that I had in my work area and let the story (if you could call it that) happen. I suppose it shows that I used to think about sex a lot more than I thought about thinking about sex. This plays out like a bad reality television show in fast motion, with many men clamoring for sex with the one woman that exists within the confines of their reality (the ostensible "pen-only zone"). Some things that called my attention:
- Spelling of "yeah" without an "h"
- Pervasive internet-speak
- Pictoral depiction of "fuck you" by Ballpoint
- Racial implications of "minorities" in a "pen-only zone"?
- Why Cleveland?
- Is Blue Fusion a negative caricature of women?
- Why do I say "do it" instead of "sex" or something more explicit? Was I afraid?
- The words to describe sex start out in quotes, then lose them
- Implications of the fact that the story is written by Rollerball?
- Asexuality of Fusion, Felt Tip, and Pencil (although perhaps Pencil is just not as in touch with his sexuality as the others or he's witnessing the sex of a different species altogether)
- "Your hopeless, ballpoint."
Side 1:
Side 2:
There are a lot of possible explanations for this piece. I used to like to collect pens. I liked the various textures and feelings or writing with different writing utensils. I wanted to be able to use all my pens at once. Thus, this. I characterized each of my various writing utensils that I had in my work area and let the story (if you could call it that) happen. I suppose it shows that I used to think about sex a lot more than I thought about thinking about sex. This plays out like a bad reality television show in fast motion, with many men clamoring for sex with the one woman that exists within the confines of their reality (the ostensible "pen-only zone"). Some things that called my attention:
- Spelling of "yeah" without an "h"
- Pervasive internet-speak
- Pictoral depiction of "fuck you" by Ballpoint
- Racial implications of "minorities" in a "pen-only zone"?
- Why Cleveland?
- Is Blue Fusion a negative caricature of women?
- Why do I say "do it" instead of "sex" or something more explicit? Was I afraid?
- The words to describe sex start out in quotes, then lose them
- Implications of the fact that the story is written by Rollerball?
- Asexuality of Fusion, Felt Tip, and Pencil (although perhaps Pencil is just not as in touch with his sexuality as the others or he's witnessing the sex of a different species altogether)
- "Your hopeless, ballpoint."
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