A visual parody of an american myth: creating empires from an idea and then selling it to the world.
make sell
make sell
now with
more extra!
I juxtapose ad slogans and copy from early 20th century advertising over the collaged mashups of random engineering diagrams and actual patent applications to show the boldness of invention and the baseness of how those ideas become products.
Teenage Model
23 ×23”
$1,200
We Want Names
23 ×23”
$1,200
Dissolvene
23 ×23”
$1,200
The Thrill That Kills
$1,200
23 ×23”
Action=Horse
20 × 25”
Sold
Curves of Youth
16×20
$1,200
Galakton
16 × 20”
$1,200
Wayside messengers
$1000
17 × 11”
Engineers & hucksters
This work gets its inspiration from over 100 years of patent applications and the desire that so many have had to make it rich from a scribble on a napkin or a half-remembered dream.