For some reason, Sadie Laska asked me to help write promo for her Brandt foundation show in 2017. I ended up writing three texts, an initial blast, a text for the press release (with Sadie), and an essay for the catalouge. The essay is illustrated by copies I made illustrations from the book Charlotte's Web.

"Teaser" Text:

You feel a swamp. The world flattened, spun faster, capsized, and now a frog king. Itʼs ok to laugh. We've been here before.
Animal Farm is a show of works revolving around this sense of spiritual dislocation and eternal return. Since the advent of print displaced itʼs representational function, fine art has existed as a history of perverted exchanges between subcultures and mass media. Mickey becomes Andy; Andy becomes a bright tshirt.
A selection of works by Keith Haring, Sue Williams, Jean Michel Basquiat, Katherine Bernhardt, Chris Martin, and many others, sketch a story that slides from figurative iconography to totemic abstraction, charting a world in churn; in print, in space, and on canvas. Animal Farm reminds us that that color is as material as culture, and that fantasy has long been a way to resist: identity, oppression, boredom. Freak out, or donʼt.