★ Jason Rhoades sails, through a Dash Snow, into a Newport, harboring a buxom cargo of organic meth and a Paul McCarthy painting of Mike Kelly’s ghost and Jimi crying Basquiat tears, snorting Darby Crash’s ashes, off the Wammy bar, backstage at the club of broken dreams. ★

★ Maxi-media and Love: 4’x4’x9’xWhoa! 2020 ★

Self-taut artivist Seth West offers a sincere, heart-felt and gaudy funereal shrine effigy. This mournful, sparkling and complex spectacle is a visual elegy to all the artists in the title and, indeed, honors all dead artists, young and old, whom have ‘slayed’ themselves with the golden axe of self destruction. R.I.P.

The origins of art, rest in sacred funerary art. The creation of tombs, sacred objects and funeral rites honoring the dead, is the history of humanity. These burial chambers and sacred objects originated in caves and grew into the worlds most magnificent monuments including Giza Pyramids and Angkor Wat. These crypts and their transcendent rituals were created with the vision of guiding the dead through the treacherous waters of earthly purgatory and aid in the ascent of the spirit to the celestial shores of the eternal afterlife. Blessed Be.  -OptiMystic 2020.

This Funereal shrine is created in the vein of David Altmedj, Red Grooms, William Kentridge, Otto Dix, Cai Guo-Qiang, Banksy, Chris Hedges, Ralph Steadman and Goya’s ‘Caprichos’ and ‘The disasters of war’.

R.I.P. AU, Mike Kelley, Dash Snow, Prince, Jason Rhoades, Bobby Blackout 1224-2010, Sweet Pea, Jorge Bangs, JP, Nicholas deMauro, MSF, Ian Curtis, Dave Schwartz, Kurt, Don Steele, Yauch, Carlos, David O, Adelard Gregory West, Darby Crash, Jim and Jimi. We Reminisce over you.

This gaudy effigy installation was first actualized for the engaging In/Sight art show
Blanc Gallery, Cambridge Mass.
Mad double hugs to Pat & Cait, Light Eye Mind, Doyle, Jonah, Natasha, Jimmy Fox, Casey & Alvan.

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