Post #18: Tres Andres!

O. K.  There actually five pots  here and six faces of Andre.  I just couldn't resist playing with the ZZ Top album title from way back called "tres hombres," and the first picture is an image of three Andres lined up.  

But many of my customers are probably thinking, "What is Matt doing with Shepard Fairey's Andre the Giant image?"  I must admit it has become a bit of an obsession for me.  I am fascinated by the contrast of his jowls and forehead which read to me as "Overlord" and the sadness present in his heavy sagging eyes.  

I have slightly altered Shepard's Giant to something more like the real and sad Andre trapped in the icon, and have been enjoying putting vertical stripes on him to reinforce the idea of his imprisonment.  

With these Andres, I am trying to present him as a mirror of all the good and evil we may project onto him.  People will call me a blasphemer, but in a real way the image taps into my "Jesus" psychological-architecture.  More about that in the next post.  Please hit me with comments.

Tres Andres!

My wife chuckled that I put Andre on a lamp vase, thinking no one will buy that.  But I think it is very funny.  Andre is the corporate slave and overlord again, but he is also a genie trapped in a lamp!

Thanks for checking it out!

Matt Jones