Early this year I was asked by Giant Robot to participate in a group show titled “Year of the Rabbit”. As I’m sure your lightening quick wit has already accessed, the show was themed after the this year’s Chinese zodiac, the rabbit. After an array of thumbs and sketches I had drawn, I eventually came up with something I though would make a nice print. I think it’s the nature of artists to put bits of themselves into their work and so in some way, every image is some form of self portrait. I titled my print “The Weight of a Tiger”. I couldn’t help but contemplate all the things I had gone through the previous year, (the Chinese zodiac tiger) what I had learned about myself, and what I was going to do with my present self from that day forward. This print was a lot of work! 5 layer silkscreen on Classic Crest 130lbs double cover weight. Edition of 30. I still have some left that I will have available on my BUY page. I also did a digital version since I’m awesome and I wanted to. A side note, on the topic artist self portraits; I apparently consider myself Hugh Hefner. Everyone that has spoken to me about the print has referenced Hefner at some point and to be honest, it never even crossed my mind until it was mentioned to me. It makes sense though, I am totally awesome and I really like pretty ladies.
The Weight of a Tiger (silkscreen print)
The Weight of a Tiger (digitally remastered!)