On Christmas Day 2007, in San Francisco, three men, unburdened by moral or existential weight, chose to torment an animal in a zoo. Showering the creature with sharp objects, stones and nasty words. Growing bored of their sport, they departed. Not long after, the object of their ridicule, Tatiana the Tiger, similarly unburdened, chose to leave her enclosure in order to exact revenge. For a considerable time and in a deceptively aimless fashion, she roamed the grounds, prior to ambushing the trio outside of an ice-cream shop, killing one. Unsatisfied, Tatiana left the carcass of her victim and continued to stalk those responsible for besmirching her honour. Eventually finding and mauling them beyond recognition. Then she was shot. Sucks to suck.
Tatiana the Tiger / Milan Kundera. Charcoal, acrylic, aerosol, pastel, ink and oil on canvas
1.2x1.4 m
Now part of @townofvicpark collection
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Skywolf
Acrylic, oil, lacquer, charcoal, chalk on canvas.
101x101cm
You can have it if you like
Occasionally, the Phalanx C-RAM battery I lived 400 meters from would open holes in the sky. Growling at the moon in a way that shook your insides and rattled your teeth, it always felt like the biggest, meanest wolf around. Then it would abruptly go back to sleep like it was never there… each time the end of everything.
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Between Us.
Acrylic, charcoal, enamel, pigment wash on canvas
1.6x1.6m
Contact is never neutral, to encounter is to alter irrevocably.
Self does not precede difference, it sharpens.
Proximity renders limits legible.
In nearness, violence is not spectacle, but maintenance, distinction asserted within attachment.
We persist as sustained tension, intimacy structured by opposition.
Forged through tacit skirmishes.
You can see it at Nightlands, opens tonight 2/3/26
@rook_ari@__fortified__
130 Oats Street
@townofvicpark and all that.
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King Bladud (study)
Carborundum, Charcoal, Acrylic
120x80cm
Three years in and a bunch of messing around and now mostly vaguely happy with that process outcome and concept directions. Or something something, I don’t care. @rook_ari
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