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Title	I Want It All
Artist	Hurt, Michael
Subject - LCSH	Art, Modern Ball State University--Students
Exhibition Date	2009
Artist Statement	Solitical is a collection of pieces exemplifying several of the major social and political problems of our contemporary American nation. It examines the gross domestic psyche of average Americans: Their interconnected values, actions, negligences, and consequences therein. The imagery is straightforward and crisp while creating many underlying congruent themes connecting one to the whole. These themes are naturally reoccurring. It has long been known but periodically, conveniently ignored that there are major "good" value or behavior traits amongst societies/cultures which we are guided to follow by examples given to us by history and consequences of (previous) human choices and actions. These normally are handed down through generations by means of religious teachings, myths, stories, fairytales, fables, lullabies, etc. There seems to be a natural ebb and flow to the adherence of these good values amongst societies across the plain of time. Individual humans make individual choices, which tend to simultaneously follow and create a collective value trend amongst a societal whole. In terms of contemporary America, the trend appears to be less adherent to what we once believed to be good values. The trend has been on a mostly downward slope since the World Wars, which snapped the American society out of the previous behavior trench of the early 1900's. It seems the generation who lived through World War I and II were the last to predominately act upon these important values of which our nation was built. Since then self-centeredness, selfishness, and excess have slowly replaced brotherhood, community, conscientiousness, and diligence. While I initially planned to address these downfalls individually per piece, I quickly found that they are naturally intertwined. For example the piece "I Want It All" with a childlike bunny both seeing and dreaming about the potential of material wealth that life could one day hold naturally foreshadows the selfishness or excess that is evident in every other piece. The carelessness in "Xanax Nation" is more obvious but is an underlying, united trait that stems into the major themes of the all the pieces. You may be asking "Why the bunnies?" The answer lies both with my objectives and my development of style. As a graffiti artist I quickly questioned the necessity to follow the crowd with tags, bombs, and 3-d pieces solely made up of a persons name. Obviously there are plenty of graffers out there that do pieces with figures in them, but the only artist out of millions that I can name who doesn't feel required to slap a tag in every single piece is Seak. He has a style so unique a tag isn't necessary. This is a major goal of mine, so I've left the tag behind and brought in the figures in the form of cartoon characters. Previously I didn't hesitate to use whatever type of animal I chose, but for this show, being as confrontational as it is meant to be, I did not want the issue of race to be incorrectly interpreted or associated with differing types of animals, so I used only bunnies. The bunnies also allow me to make a single figure representative of all people, whereas if I used a human figure it, the viewer automatically interprets the figure as someone else. That would be detrimental to my goal of introspection on the part of the viewer. Yes, this show is about you and me and how we all need a realistic perspective of what we are doing as a nation and a culture. How we have come to define freedom and liberty. How we need to act if we are to keep freedom and liberty. We need to consider the costs and consequences if we are to keep on our current path of imperialism, spending and borrowing, and lesser personal values. We are a collective of bunnies. Finally, I would like to thank my family, friends, and Ang for all of their positive input and eternal support. Thanks also to John Gee, without you I'd be voiceless and talentless. Thanks to Daim and Heist, two Da Vinci's of graffiti. Thanks to God, he is in all of us and we are in him. He won't judge you, you'll judge yourself
Subject - TGM	Art Drawings Pencil works
Time Period	2000s (2000-2009) Twenty-first century, C. E.
Medium	Colored Pencil on Illustration Board
Series	Solitical
Exhibition	Spring 2009 Thesis Exhibitions
Physical Dimensions	78 x 53 cm.
Media Type	Still image
Original Format	Art Color images
Digital Date	2009-06 (Loaded); 2010-04-13 (Metadata revised)
File Format	image/jpeg
Digitization Equipment	Nikon Coolpix 8700 Digital Camera
Collection	Ball State University Student Art Collection
Collection URL	http://libx.bsu.edu/collection.php?CISOROOT=/BSUArtists
Copyright	Copyright 2009, Ball State University and the original artist. All rights reserved.

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