Jamie Boling holding up one of David Dunlap's catalogs, with David looking on.
David Dunlap once told me that we were both placers. Which could mean a few things, but he was talking about drawing. Placers are people who arrange pictures, sort of like a collagist. In David's and my case, we both draw a lot.
David makes a calendar by hand every month. He's been doing it for over twenty years.
About a year ago I went over to
Jamie Boling's and
Cece Cole's apt in
Bklyn for a drawing party. Towards the end of it I chopped apart a drawing that had the illusion of deep space, and then collaged it back together so it looked convoluted and flat, and seeing it made me really happy. However, it wasn't too sophisticated, and at the time I wasn't sure what to do with it.
Placers think of the working surface of a drw/painting as something flat. And that flat thing has other things on it. The main motivation of this kind of art is too make a picture using associative logic. Like if you put a beaver and Pamela Anderson, people are going to think about dirty jokes. If you put a President/Prime Minister and screaming mothers covered in blood holding dead babies, explosions and corpses in uniforms, people will think about war. If you put both of those groups together, people will think about American culture.
