Dialogues With Mother Earth > Influences
• Use of classical figuration relates to my own early work addressing psychological and social issues: Beckmann, Grosz, Dix, Golub, Spencer, Cuevas.
• Mural format: Piero della Francesca's "Story of the Holy Cross"; Diego Rivera's "History of Mexico"; Picasso's "Guernica";" Iri and Toshi Maruki 's "Hiroshima Panels".
• Framing of project looking backwards from future post-apocalyptic time: film “The Age of Stupid,"
• Theatrical takeover of derelict building: "Sleep No More", Punchdrunk Theatre
• Narrative and location: Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."
• Imagery: "Oprah and Noah Save the Animals"- procession from Blake's "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims"; "Funeral for the Last Elephant"- photographs of hunters with animal trophies; “Seeking Higher Ground”- documentary by Spike Lee "When the Levees Broke".
• Anticipated catastrophic global events: Lester Brown, Paul Gilding, James Lovelock; “An Inconvenient Truth”; The Union of Concerned Scientists
• Frustration with capitalist driven inaction: Naomi Klein "This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate."
• Mural format: Piero della Francesca's "Story of the Holy Cross"; Diego Rivera's "History of Mexico"; Picasso's "Guernica";" Iri and Toshi Maruki 's "Hiroshima Panels".
• Framing of project looking backwards from future post-apocalyptic time: film “The Age of Stupid,"
• Theatrical takeover of derelict building: "Sleep No More", Punchdrunk Theatre
• Narrative and location: Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."
• Imagery: "Oprah and Noah Save the Animals"- procession from Blake's "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims"; "Funeral for the Last Elephant"- photographs of hunters with animal trophies; “Seeking Higher Ground”- documentary by Spike Lee "When the Levees Broke".
• Anticipated catastrophic global events: Lester Brown, Paul Gilding, James Lovelock; “An Inconvenient Truth”; The Union of Concerned Scientists
• Frustration with capitalist driven inaction: Naomi Klein "This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate."