I really like this style of text art, a simple primary background with text floating on it as though a screensaver. It has its influence in the design of saul bass and the works of Rauschenberg and Rothko. Sammo the alter ego urban guru of Basquiat also plays a role in the development of these peices. Could this blend in to the background, its simple yet obscure text become like the event it narrates.
The work is related to the 'a fifth of Menenzes' in that Menenzes was portgeuse as is the langauge used. The title is based on the hundred thousand pounds his family got in compensation for the five bullets he was shot with. The language disparity highlights the frustration of communication that failed everyone on the day he was killed.
Not sure I get it, but I can do the math if that helps?..lol
ReplyDeleteIll put an explanation under it. It is porteguese and one hundred thousand is how much jean charles de menenzes got for the five bullets he was shot with. I'm trying to link it with modern art themes so it has some kind of reason to exist.
DeleteThat is crazy! This is what happens in the world nowa days.
ReplyDeleteyes it's nuts, plus the police in London are now permanently armed.It aint made us safer, just scared of all the things the cops do to us. Other country's are scared of their police, they represent corruption and violence and support for the corruption of the state.It's happening in England now, but we will sort it. You cannot control the people through fear, sooner or later you get revolution and change.
Deletethat you can not.
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