Newest series of work, loosely inspired by The Buddha of Medicine. The figures are traced packages, reflected to create symmetrical forms. The totemic forms sit in a formal alignment that mimics the layouts of the Buddha, the Bodhisattvas and their followers.

I use packaging as a means to investigate my own relationship to the materialism of our contemporary existence. The need for things and the general underlying unease I have for so much of it. 

I'm also interested how the process of laying down marks and destroying and putting down new figures mimics the growth of a belief system. A nebulous complex system grows out of this process of declarations one over the other.

All work: Pencil, ink, acrylic paint and marker on gessoed paper - 30" x 42"

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Bill Allen