The images on this post consist of watercolor, pencil and sculptural pieces on rawhide. Partly influenced by post-structuralist artists, Rob Smithson and Eva Hesse, part American mythology, part Joseph Beuys social sculpture, the rawhide pieces tie together both figurative, minimal and prosaic strains in my work. The hide is subject to environmental changes in temperature and and humidity, often taking its own form based on the surrounding conditions around a certain points of resistance. The use of browns and blood tones in the 2-D material allows for the paper to render in the form and appearance of rawhide. As an existential object, rawhide itself has a distinctive history, including its practical, spiritual and industrial uses. In both representing and supporting practices (literally and mythologically) of the West, rawhide ties together several mythological strains. Substituting or including rawhide with oft used materials, the old tools become figuratively constructive in a new mythology of the West.
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