Comments on: Collab II

By: Vindauga Gallery

Vindauga Gallery — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:21:20 +0000

Will Not Forget (Song for Keith)

Jayrah and I dropped off the finished framed piece at the donation party Saturday night. Ended up same basic dimensions as the Robert Johnson piece (image 20″ x 20″ framed 24″ x 36″). I think I might start offering matting …

By: Polly

Polly — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:15:17 +0000

i agree with hud. it makes me think of the togetherness and strangely happiness (out of the text/context) because it makes me thingk of a baseball team all puttin their ‘hands in’.

By: Hud

Hud — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:06:42 +0000

I’m not seeing struggle (as in ‘to fight against’) but more of a togetherness, a solidarity. I saw it and immediately thought of America but it took me a couple of seconds to actually see the flag. And though I saw the dirty hands as a image of the working man I figure it could be interpreted as a “our hands are dity” statement about our involvement in X.

By: PrettyFakes » Blog Archive » Work in Progress: “Not Fade Away (Song for Keith).”

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:04:21 +0000

[...] Mississippians living with HIV and AIDS, and we wanted the piece to reflect that. Wah’s initial image is complex: the skin-color of the multiple overlaid hands literally runs int [...]

By: gorjus

gorjus — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:07:05 +0000

That’s a great interpretation of it. While initially there was some conceptual talk about there being hand-holding, in the romantic sense, this reminds me more of a complicated aerobatic grip–something one person is doing to another to grab ahold of them.

A lot of it to me is about not letting go.

By: Dr. Wagner

Dr. Wagner — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:56:45 +0000

To me it says “struggle.” It seems like a struggle for control and or direction or to be the “winner.” And the flag only lends to that.