New images today from Thailand as California artists and frequent collaborators Eddie Colla and D Young V marked the end of ’14.
D Young V creates fearful images of a violent militarized society where people are trapped and distressed, the child-like expressions pinched, the color/bw compositions littered with navigational and directional symbols from software applications, heads swimming in digits, mouths gagged with graphics. Colla’s female figures are rendered perhaps more realistically, but equally spent spiritually, sexually idealized, defiant, and at war.
Eddie Colla. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
In the descriptive text accompanying these images about their year-end excursion and touristing, they paint an apocalyptic scene – references to sex and prostitution and corruption and citywide celebrations at temples as they say they spread their large format wheat-pastes across Bangkok, Pattaya and Koh Samet. Here are the images they contributed to the Thai streetscape and various abandoned lots. One can only imagine what the children and workers and families walking in these neighborhoods think when they see these images. For their part, the artists returned to their homes and studios in Oakland and San Francisco to create more work.
Eddie Colla. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
Eddie Colla. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
Eddie Colla. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
Eddie Colla. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
Eddie Colla and we think we can spot a Kora Lee in the background. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
D Young V . Eddie Colla. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
D Young V . Eddie Colla. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
D Young V. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
D Young V. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
D Young V. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
D Young V. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
D Young V. Thailand. 2014. (photo © Eddie Colla)
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