The Initial Idea

Rewind 6 months ago, once again I was on a run (jogging), this time listening to Soundgarden’s Superunkown. After I was done, walking back to my apartment was when the idea hit me. “I’ll do a series of paintings based on the album Superunknown,” said me, and the image that popped into my head was a Chris Cornell doll standing on a mountainous landscape of flowing paint rags, obviously inspired by my last drawing of the Crime and Punishment series seen above (and I’m also guessing the song My Wave). I always thought of that drawing as a transition into whatever I was going to do next. All I knew was that I wanted to incorporate the process in a more literal way, incorporate all of these rags/gloves/paint tubes and such into the imagery. In Johnny Paintbox (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbZp09_LHKM) I felt like I was able to express all of these ideas I had about the painting process, ideas I wasn’t able to convey in an actual painting, but found a way in video. Now it’s high time to try and bring some of that into my painting, everybody’s favorite, paintings about painting, what fun. Who knows what will come out of this, all I know is the idea survived a 6-month no-painting hiatus and that ain’t not bad

I also like the phrase Superunknown; It’s when you REALLY have no idea what the fuck you’re doing, like now.


“If this isn’t what you see
It doesn’t make you blind
If this doesn’t make you feel
It doesn’t mean you’ve died

If this doesn’t make you free
It doesn’t mean you’re tied
If this doesn’t take you down
It doesn’t mean you’re high

If this doesn’t make you smile
You don’t have to cry
If this isn’t making sense
It doesn’t make it lies

Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind
And then it steals your soul”
-Soundgarden