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On the Rocks by Tim Head
I saw Head's work this Summer at the Tate Modern. Interesting and striking work from a well established artist. My teen loved it and commissioned this posting
Below The Erasers II: On the Rocks, This photograph features a seductive, yet contaminated landscape, filled with small rubber erasers moulded in the shape of human skulls, surrounded by toy aeroplanes. Whilst the objects in themselves are playful, the image raises more serious questions about the consequences of our fast-paced lifestyle and the polluted burden placed upon the environment. (exhibit caption)
About it, the Artist Extraordinaire has said: "Brightly colored skulls pepper a shiny rock embankment at night. A large photograph appears to be of a real, life sized, subject. Full size rubber skulls and other toys amidst a craggy shore that calls to mind the Alaskan shore after the Exxon Valdez disaster. But then we realize the black waters are a garbage bag and the skulls and toys are tiny trinkets. It is a rich and deep image. And oddly (this is what is so captivating about it) is that our perception hovers between the two ways we see the picture; at once it is a still life diorama AND a life size real place."
