Melissa Vogley-Woods and Tina Beifuss have put together an excellent show, I highly recommend checking it out!
Here's the drawing that will be in the show.
'World's Highest Standard of Living'. It's roughly 3'x4' and is graphite, oil, ink and prisma color on paper. I'm a little bummed about the images, but it's a really difficult piece to photograph without picking up a lot of reflection. So it goes. I hope you enjoy.
Detail 'World's Highest Standard of Living'.
Detail 'World's Highest Standard of Living'.
Detail 'World's Highest Standard of Living'.
“What are roots and how long have we had them? If our species has existed for
a couple of million years, what is its history? Our remote ancestors followed the
game, moved with the food supply, and fled from evil weather, from ice and the
changing seasons. Then after millenia beyond thinking they domesticated some
animals so that they lived with their food supply. Then of necessity they followed
the grass that fed their flocks in endless wanderings. Only when agriculture
came into practice—and that’s not very long ago in terms of the whole history—
did a place achieve meaning and value and permanence. But land is a tangible,
and tangibles have a way of getting into few hands. Thus it was that one man
wanted ownership of land and at the same time wanted servitude because
someone had to work it. Roots were in the ownership of land, in tangible and
immovable possessions. In this view, we are a restless species with a very short
history of roots, and those not widely distributed. Perhaps we have overrated
roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more
ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else. “
--John Steinbeck
‘Travels With Charley’, 1962
