Surface layers are shown peeled / falling away to reveal the underlying image in bright orange and red. Blue flakes are glue to the face in the shape of the grided sections that have fallen away. (blue flakes made from coating stiffened tracing paper with same blue glaze used over red/orange under painted face) Gridded background itself is holed with loose orange flakes lying around formed in a similar manner. Layers of superficiality.
In the final piece I used the grid as a kind of matrix of the here and now crass consumer lifestyle that we are all subjected to ...without choice. The grid covers the background chaos of consumerist images and desires , extending up the fathers arms and about to engulf his young offspring...whether he likes it or not. No-one has a choice of whether this life is the life they want to lead.
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