Ink and watercolour, 8x10 inches.
This drawing is part of Butter and Blood, an exhibit at Giant Robot 2 in LA from May 8 to June 2.
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May 01, 2010
portrait of the artist as a piece of bread
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- Marc Johns’ drawings have been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Athens, and elsewhere. He has just published a new book of drawings:
I MADE THESE DRAWINGS FOR YOU. His first book, Serious Drawings, was published by teNeues.
His drawings have appeared in many other books, as well as publications such as National Geographic, Wired, Newsweek, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
His work is blogged about by someone, somewhere, every day, and many of his fans have tattoos of his drawings.
He lives with his wife Kristen, two sons, and his drawer full of pens in Victoria, BC, Canada. Marc also finds it strange to talk about himself in the third person. Read more
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you are holy.
Posted by: lumikha | May 02, 2010 at 12:13 AM
my friend tagged me about this picture on facebook and we we're arguing about what does this means. WILL YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE MEANING OF THIS? i want to stop the arguments already haha
Posted by: Himynameisayen | May 12, 2010 at 11:26 PM
I'm not sure I can describe it's meaning exactly, but I'll give it a shot.
It's basically about imperfection. A loaf of bread looks perfect on the outside, but then you slice it, and find there are holes inside.
So if I were a piece of bread, I'd probably have a hole, the kind that when you try to spread on peanut butter, it flows through the hole and makes a bit of a mess. A great deal of my drawings are about identity, and about how we try to portray an ideal self through brand names, or through the adoption of trends. It's all a bit of a silly game, but we all participate to varying degrees (myself included). But deep inside, beneath the surface, we are all imperfect (like a slice of bread).
Posted by: Marc Johns | May 13, 2010 at 02:43 PM