Hate Work and Renegade Tribes
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Hate Work (Left)
Man’s tragic flaw has led this beautiful planet towards self destruction (initially he was not supposed to reach the dollar but age stretched the rubber band and i dont have the heart to take it away from him now, he earned it)
By Pat Dyer
Acrylic on wood
Renegade tribes feeling the push for progress (Right)
About 20 million years ago, somewhere in Africa, ape-like creatures, came down out of the trees and began to live on the ground. The story of human life is about adaptation. About 10 thousand years ago, man became an agriculturalist. Settlement gave rise to division of labour; division of labour gave rise to technology; technology gave rise to trade and commerce, with limited resources.
By Pat Dyer
Marker and paint on canvas
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Peru’s a talented cat. Combining a fun conscious style and his developed illustrative education, Peru Dyer is an artist to be reckoned with. Taking his moniker from the mean streets he grew up on, this guy is major tour de force. His art evokes the frenzied emotion of youth with a grown up sensibility of a man who cares for the very state of our environment. He wants his art to make you live and breathe the way a child does. He wants you to feel young again and check your responsibilities at the door. “We take our imagination for granted,” he says. “As an artist I feel I have a mission to educate and inspire.” Peru has recently returned from exhibiting his works throughout Europe from Vienna to Barcelona , and plans to continue on his mission of collective upliftment.
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This is great art. “Hate Work” is especially powerful to me. What was the inspiration for this particular piece? I am reminded of the many Latin American farmers who have struggled over the last century and a half to survive, always forced to reach for the US dollar and a better life. Throughout, homegrown alternatives (be they Marxist, socialist or other), represented in my mind by the red, always remain unfinished and beholden to the hegemony of foreign political projects.
the original image used in hate work was an oil worker in southern US on a National Geographic.
I dont know how the inspiration came but it was very natural, for that whole series of paintings in fact. (while I was in College 5 years ago)
I must credit graffiti artist Brezerker in Ottawa whom I was working with the previous years prior to moving to Montreal. He always worked outside of the box adding to his pieces, and of course the classic archetype of the bunny chasing the carrot in a stick played a majour role in the creative process.
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What I enjoy most about “Hate Work” is that it isn’t a static piece of art. Not to say that any artwork is static, since people’s perceptions of them will change over time and there change the art. But what I’m talking about is art that physically responds to its environment. Architecture would be one example, but it’s rare to see canvas-type art created in this fashion.
There’s something poetic about the rubber band (and therefore the dollar) reaching down towards the hand over time. On the one hand, I think ‘how unlike reality - if anything, the dollar should be going the other way.’ But on the other hand,…
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL
I like that even though he got a hold of the dollar, he continues to strain.