Drawings, exquisite corpse, pencil on paper, 10" x 13", 2009
Last Saturday, Seth L and I put our heads together to honor the best films of 2008 with an exquisite corpse drawing.
Here's the story arc:
The newborn, crotchety Benjamin Button gets sucked into the mechanical claws of Wall*E. Wall*E then melts into Randy the Ram while Eva the sexy robot melts into the Ram's fist as it punches a meat slicer. Randy's legs and blood melt into Anne Hathaway and a priest in Rachel Getting Married. Skip a frame, and a French guy walks a tightrope across the Twin Towers while a cop goes nuts. The tightrope walker's leg fades into the actual Batman bat, which fades into an intense, muscular, and oiled Randy the Ram, which fades into the big ticket, the one and only, Mr. Oscar. And that's a wrap!
Coincidentally, the next night, the theme of this drawing was touched on by the musician from Slumdog Millionaire in his acceptance speech when he said, we have "a choice between hate or love. I choose love." Except this drawing doesn't make any choices between the two and it's very unclear where hate stops and love starts.
Seth L is a wicked good doodler. He was also generous enough to let me crash at his pad in Queens. What a guy!
I'm very proud to be an artist.
Posted by: Seth L. | February 27, 2009 at 01:31 PM
You guys were on the same page - literally, AND figuratively! lol
Posted by: Carl W | February 27, 2009 at 01:39 PM
One correction: that is not a priest in the Rachel Getting Married section. That is the groom, as portrayed by Tunde Adebimpe, member of the popular band TV On The Radio.
Posted by: Seth L. | February 27, 2009 at 01:48 PM