The Perspicacious Crazy Frog
This work is a visually pleasing, sociological collected and manipulated consisting of floating, ghostly pairs of eyes which is reminiscent of binary opposition between straight and gay. The work deploys post-capitalist consumer politics as highlighting the status of the image in today’s saturated visual environment.
This work is also a disembodied and disguised, erotic box of prisms that reflect viewers’ own eyes back consisting of drawings and collages which is reminiscent of racial inequality, power struggles, systemic violence, and religious fervour.
The work deploys illusions with reflective surfaces as rich dark humour. The work deploys monumental scale as shifting from the familiar to the strange in a way that seems to escape words.
Crazy Frog, originally known as The Annoying Thing, is a Swedish CGI-animated character and musician created in 2003. I introduced my 5-year old and 7-year old boys to the Crazy Frog and inspired this painting.
The work deploys illusions with reflective surfaces as rich dark humour. The work deploys monumental scale as shifting from the familiar to the strange in a way that seems to escape words.