AUKUS Chronicles/Studio Notes: Works in progress-Made in Taiwan, Hello Pretty Pretty, Run Spot Run
These are some early details from a series of works I’m working on concurrently in 2022. Anticlockwise from this top left and beneath, details from two canvases which started as a long 3 metre triptych (but I ran out of puff sorry). First one is called “Made in Taiwan”; the second is called “Supernature”. They are inspired by music from the late 70s. During the lockdowns I was listening to a lot of 70s Euro disco.
Next is a xray dog (kinda radioactive?) called '“Run Spot Run” and finally a 12 x 16” completed canvas called “Hello Pretty Pretty” painted during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Made In Taiwan - Work in Progress Triptych Panel 3: An early preview of a work in progress with my figure here based on American Hollywood Chinese movie star Anna May Wong who lived a difficult, inspiring life while inhabiting complex intersectional identities in the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s.
Made In Taiwan - Work in Progress Triptych Panel 3: Clearly about the pandemic but each panel really has a few stories and it’s long, almost 3 metres together.
RUN SPOT RUN!!!. Carl Gopalkrishnan 2022
Hello Pretty Pretty, a line I took from Barbarella as Jane Fonda struggles with the unwanted attentions of a dominatrix on another planet. What better metaphor for the unwanted obsessions of Vladimir Putin for Ukraine?