Troy Swain's Art Show from 2001

[uberdionysus]

Troy Swain's Art Show, 2001

Modern Man Action Figures

Comments

[danschank]

hey, just sorta following up on my last comment... didn't mean to imply that success equals confinement, artistically. just that being seperated from an ideal audience affords us more room to do away with audeince expectations. but mostly i was trying to cheer you up. the post seemed a little gloomy, and it's a gloominess i know firsthand and have shit to say about, i guess.

in other news, i'm glad to see these here. i mean, i guess i saw some of this when i added you (from your userinfo, etc.), but it's nice to give it another look. having read your blog, i can get a very strong sense of the affection you feel for these people (as well as the humor)... wondering whether or not that would translate to someone who hasn't read your lj for a few months though... i can't offer anything with any kind of neutrality i guess, but for what it's worth, you seem to be getting closer to the heart of the recent obsession with re-configuring youthful pop culture than a lot of people in the art world these days.

[uberdionysus]

I could give you the intellectual clap-trap I would tell others, but basically I just liked action figures and the skill involved in crafting them, AND I liked philosophy, AND I liked seeing what these people looked like.

toy story

[lostcosmonaut]

i think I like th Jabba one best, because he is gross. Was he fun to make?--mza.

[uberdionysus]

They were all fun to make!

It's Immanuel Kant, and he wasn't finished there. And he was less inspired by Jabba, and more by Mojo from the X-Men and Baron Harkonnen from Dune.

Here's what he looks like finished:

hey

[lostcosmonaut]

what happened to th crazy, gross appendages that used to be on his crotchal area??--mza.

It was cool, but

[uberdionysus]

I always wanted it to look like the drawings I made. The gross tendrils were a temporary stop-gap.

[chaos_dictates]

stop longing for the past & get up and create something!!!

[smack!]

[uberdionysus]

Much needed.

Although I really just wanted to post what I made in the past.

[fusis]

I think this longing for the past is a good beginning. Whenever I start digging around through the things I've done, I get a chance to reevaluate and then start somewhere new. Before that point, it's hard to know where to start.

[uberdionysus]

Yeah. I need a self-imposed kick in the pants.

[secrethistoryx]

Exceptionally cool! And funny and horrible!

[uberdionysus]

Thankee, thankee!