"By painting onto these things that I would see every day, it gave real personal meaning to the object and the imagery I would paint onto it. In the same way now, I’ve realized people have a very strong and intimate connection to the packaging of the products that they have used themselves over the years. Pharmaceutical packages in particular are very interesting, because of the emotions they trigger to someone who has used a certain drug over the years. Whether they’ve abused the drug, or it has cured them of something terrible, there’s almost a sense of ‘catharsis’ for certain viewers, when I paint something onto it. It reinterprets and subverts the value and meaning of the product into something more soulful or often into something quite funny."
- Subject Matter: Portrait
- Created: 2014
- Inventory Number: 155
Other Work From G. S.
Personal collection of Pop-Art, Street-Art, and Graffiti.
Not for sale!
Work is available for Museums and/or Exhibitions as well as Scholarly and/or Scientific Projects.
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