The Alphabet
In the alphabet series the artist battles the hero. The hero must be overcome in order to resolve the image. A generic comic book hero head is pasted in the center of the canvas, as the starting point for each image. A further constraint is that the image must contain one letter of the alphabet. The letters are the beginning of text, or the most basic textual element. Text is added to the format in a painterly way; it augments, rather than defines. The addition of ambiguous narrative (cobbled together from biblical sources, art criticism, comic books, postmodern dissertations, and religious pamphlets) gives the viewer a further element from which meaning can be derived. The "meaning" is at the intersection of the elements, similar to a comic book panel, in which, the meaning is created by a combination of visuals and words.