Eat Me

40 inches wide x 63 inches  high

Ink on Canvas

2009

This is a very large recreation of a folded dollar bill. It is an homage to rebels, skeptics and conspiracy theorists who out of patriotic duty never stop questioning, revealing, provoking and thinking. It’s an open letter of defiance to whomever holds tenure at the white house. While the prominence of the white house is dominates, the flag on top of the white house signifies there is adequate blame to go around to the rest of the government.

After test folding to determine where the design will land it is meticulously transferred onto raw, unprimed canvas. Once the drawing is finished it is stretched out on the floor and carefully folded up. Being that the piece starts in the correct proportion to a dollar bill the canvas is around 175 inches long. Seeing it on the ground gives enough distance to see it correctly which is much too large to be folded on a table. Once properly folded together it is then glued together. Then a custom canvas and stretcher bars are made and the bill is glued down. To shadow it and the bill the front bill is about half an inch larger all around than the stretched canvas behind it. This gives the illusion of a thin bill that is folded while also giving it the rigidity to hang on or lean against a wall.