From squirrels vs. bugs to tables vs. chairs, to cowboys vs. aliens and cookies vs. milk, The Line Wars is a personal commitment to drawing perpetually anything imaginable engaged in conflict.
The drawings emerged from sketches and doodles, the most rudimentary expression of visual thinking. Lines, being the simplified beginning of a drawing, are akin to our most basic subconscious processes and inner thoughts. The images are based on the entertainment of childhood and adolescence. Video games, action figures, strategy board games; always two forces opposing one another. Each panel encapsulates a single battle which when viewed en masse take on epic proportions. The Line Wars is a celebration of childhood, of making impulsive, nonchalant drawings and a highly personal journey into nostalgia and an homage to geekdom. Using a single type of pen on a single type of paper, it is a reductive inquiry into the process of artmaking.
As a continually growing series, The Line Wars is a part of my daily routine, my life; drawing while waiting for the buses or for the eggs to cook (hmmm…eggs vs. buses?).
Mouth vs. Cavities
Elephants vs. Pianos
Greeks vs. Cyclopses
WW2 vs WW2
Subways vs. Subways
Samurais vs. Ronins
Earthquake vs. Buildings
AIM25 vs. AIM25
Obama vs. Various Bad Things
Kites vs. Wind
Bugs vs. Typewriters
Piggies vs. Coins
Camels vs. Needles
Aliens vs. Humanity
Gondolas vs. Doubledecker Buses
Ships vs. Icebergs
Hummingbirds vs. Venus Flytraps
Hot Air Balloons vs. Zeppelins
Chickens vs. The Streets
Robots vs. Robots
Mice vs. Mice
Macs vs. PCs
Stalactites vs. Stalagmites
Sister vs. Me
Satellites vs. Satellites
DJs vs. Rockers
Stars vs. Stripes
Man vs. Radiation
Stars vs. Planets
Clowns vs. Clowns
Death vs. Disasters
Bananas vs. Pajamas
Eggs vs. Saint Benedicts
Chess Pieces vs. Chess Pieces
Pasta vs. Rice
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Romans vs. Candles
Squirrels vs. Ants
Tits vs. Asses
Cactii vs. Flowers
Mammoths vs. Cavemen
Nose vs. Zits
Tables vs. Chairs
Cigarettes vs. Lungs
Priests vs. Praying Mantids
Derby Cars vs. Derby Cars
Sticks vs. Stones
Dragons vs. Knights
Arrows vs. Bullets
Aliens vs. Rednecks
Barbarians vs. Giant Bugs
untitled : marker on paper, 12 x 18 in. 2004
The Line Wars (original) debuted at “A Stereoscopic Vision” exhibition held at d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac) in 2004. There was no mention of The Linewars in this statement because they were only added to the show quite close to the exhibition’s opening.