E. Daley
777
Acrylic on canvas
"Named after a jackpot, this is a portrait of an imagined cruising scene. The idea of expansiveness & anonymity of the American Landscape has been romanticized by popular culture, and concurrently taken advantage of by the gay community in attempts to avoid arrests, violence, and harassment. This is an homage to gas station cruisers across the American West.
A hallmark of fossil fuel advertising is the forced equivalence of freedom, sex appeal, patriotism, and the consumption of fuel. My work appropriates these conflations. I usurp images from advertisements, popular slogans, and fragments of the fuel-industry-defined American dream as a tongue-in-cheek infiltration of advertising tactics that trigger the desire to consume and dampen necessitation for corporate accountability. "
– E. Daley
About the artist
E. Daley
