The pill is my vast precaution to avoid immobility. Immobility in the physical sense but more so immobility of the mind. It is the ability to give up comfort and security in the light of a new truth. It is an effort to separate my own values from the values of those around me. It is the motivation for the constant questioning of the dogma of a modern society. It is my rejection of the Idea of a universal right and wrong and the symbol of all that falls under my concept of the two. In short, it is my ongoing attempt at self awareness. As an image in its original context it was the antithesis of the societal idea that there is a norm to be strived for and envied. In particular it mocked our affinity for the diagnosing and medicating of minor learning, physical, and social “disorders”, which in my mind are nothing more than slight deviations from the standard. This is how the idea gained its form but the form is not what is important. In another context the pill may be me myself. In another it may be nothing more than an image.


3/29/2010

Not a great photo, but this is the final product of my work over winter break. There were 30 portraits in all. Painted on drywall with sprayed casting slip, oxides, and brushed oil paint.