This image was posted on the New York Times website with an article by Edward Ruscha. It immediately caught my attention as an interesting image of New York and one that isn’t a smack across the face 9/11 image. It was hard finishing a BFA during the year after 9/11. It seemed anyone with any political interest in their work would make reference to the attacks. Very rarely would they ever make a piece that was not obvious, cheesy and either self-absorbed or about grand world issues. Of course you could never say much about that during crits as the attitude in New York after the event was understandably so delicate. This lead to some very insipid critiques of work that should have got torn to pieces. It’s like the 13 year old girl who makes National Geographic collages and thinks they are a deep reflection of the state of the world and her inner struggles.
Edward Ruscha
Here is the comedy collage I had made in the summer of 2006 while being the TA for George Parrino’s summer collage class. A student had come in with a bunch of cut out magazine pieces, and I tried to demonstrate how poorly they could all be used, while still following some of Parrino’s basic rules for collage.
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