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United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 31.5 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in
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This image was made by the artist shortly after returning to the UK from a month long stay in Tokyo. The figure pictured was spotted amongst a clustering of tentacle vendors near Shinjuku station known as Piss Alley. Because of the piss. Incase that wasn't clear. A local offal boiler told me the man is well known by frequent diners there for his monthly visits to a fry-shack that specialises in octopus bollocks and crispy fish tits. The owner happily removes the 'flesh malfunction' with a big spoon which is then sliced, fried, salted and served up to starving salary men before their train journeys home. Though it may seem strange to us, the slices are considered a delicacy in Japan and apparently taste similar to the dreams of a majestic mountain puma. Made in acrylic and emulsion on canvas in 2011, the original painting of the aforementioned print was created whilst the artist was based in a studio once a skin-processing factory in the Caldmore area of Walsall in the West Midlands. A former red light district, Caldmore is now locally known for its abundance of flesh-dragging mutant-pussbag slug-puffer gravel-sucking creature-blobs and near nightly riots fought viciously between various and multitude escaped fast food scraps in its short but charming-if-you-are-lacking-eyeballs high street. Also worthy of mention and a known rich source of inspiration to Carp is the nearby Church of St. Plorp atop a hill of medieval crisps which overlooks the town and where after a long days painting the artist often attended midnight shoe burnings and services involving the offering of sacrificial ham to a broken telly reputed to cry milk every time somebody bought a packet of value sausages from Poundland, though in a purely observational role it is important to note. Carp Matthew is now based in London, though bares the scars of said time via his art and disturbingly frequent references to ham. This painting is made on a 100x80cm canvas, is unframed and does not include fixtures for hanging.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:31.5 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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My work is about nothing. It is about yearning. It is about the lunatic pursuit of purpose and meaning, in empty spaces and dead ends, in brain-bending fantasy and fanatic ideology, be it religious, political, occult or otherwise. It is about hiding and lying and the myth of progress. The figures I paint are lost, in rooms without doors and voids without walls, beyond the vaguest glimmer of reality with no hope of return, exactly as they would wish it were they ever again able even to perceive the notion. They are symbolic of this moment, its total capitulation to impenetrable narcissism and shameless indulgence of base instinct oblivious to consequence, to the hell-bent suicide of consumer capitalism, their mutations manifestations of dying spirit and sickness of soul, of their owners repressed fears, inadequacies, distant desires and inescapable solitude. They long for what they can never have without deceiving themselves. Worse than tragic, their movements are meaningless. My work is a meditation on this predicament, every piece either an attempted exorcism of futility or a desperate grasping at fleeting beauty and momentary loss of self-conciousness to said pleasure. A tangible solidification of the creeping nihilism that permeates every atom of this age, it is a view of life as mere spectacle or aimless chaos and an exploration of the minds ceaseless rejection of such. And ultimately it is about how it feels to exist without faith in anything beyond love. My work is about nothing.
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