Kinda tricky, this did a lot of things and copped a lot of moves that don't really come up on my radar that much. Its kindof hard to know how much slack i'm cutting it for doing a lot of stuff that only really seems novel from my fairly limited perspective. Still it did was pretty fun in the way it spun a ton of disparate themes (youth culture, Religion, queerness) together in way that felt coherent but thankfully, yknow, incoherent. Still I wonder how much of his leaning on this heavily-stylized brand of draughtsmanship was more crutch than armature.
He's kindof obsessed w/ headphones I think; both drawings and sculptures feature them. As both bases for strange architecture, like worlds within sounds. Also as little thumping elements of what seems like tiny gothic flower arrangements. He has easy way of putting an elegantly unshowy twist on an unglamorous material (cf. the TXTSK red thread graffiti -Bolster my heart is urs for this btw). Highlight is obviously the, kindof insane really fusion of Buckminster Fuller and, well the press release claims its inspired by some 60's queer spiritual leader called Bretzlo who founded the church of spiritual equality, but googling both just sends me back to the press release. Nice.
Still, this was fresh, and hip in a breezy but clever way and so you cut things like that a lot of slack you know. And by the time you see the geodesic-church-of-non-traditional-marriage you're sufficiently charmed by this guy's playfulness and inventiveness that it doesn't feel like an easy pass anymore. Its like when my driving instructor told me: if you give the tester a smooth ride he's gonna forget the pen.
