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Beswick & Spence
Conte' Crayon on Canford Card
10.25x11.5", ©2005
My current drawings and paintings are of "cell phone tree towers," cell towers, telephone poles, power lines and sunsets, your basic cityscape in Los Angeles. Often times I find that the amazing sunsets and beautiful landscape play second fiddle to the foreground of wires and towers we use to connect and communicate. I am interested in these objects because they are so pervasive in our environment, yet so disregarded, whether they are intentionally disguised, or under the camouflage of an environment which we have grown to accept. One of my personal attractions to the "trees" lies in the humor of the object itself; these are man-made structures that emulate trees and function as cell phone towers. The result is a hybridization of nature and technology. I consider the telephone polls, towers and trees to be icons that represent the degree to which we cognitively consider the environment that we live in.
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