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.