thot he was from la

Walton Ford, with his illustrative style, and sense of colour would seem to be from la, working out of long island his work is informed by both ethnographic and zoological practice from the 18th and 19th Century. He then takes those, and tweaks them with elements of modern power politics.

Think of english explorer Richard Burton, who is name checked in the painting Dirty Dick Burton's Aide de Camp- who played gr8 colonial tourist, doing studies of mens cock size based on race, faking his way into mecca, translating both the koran and the arabian nights- that strange mix between the holy and the blasphemous is a ready metonymy for larger post colonial excercises both at home and abroad.

The monkey in art history terms is used to symbolize whoring, infiedilty, and in jungian symbolism our baser animal selves-to have a monkey portayed in a zoological style, and titled venucalarly, is to suggest that all of europes adventures were nothing more then slutting and beshitting through history.

aide de campe- as in camp.


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