Yuri Shwedoff Posts A Process Video For White Castle
There are a few artists that have wiggled their way into my daily life. Nothing formal, nothing scheduled. But I just find myself trying to find out if they’ve done anything new lately. Huh, wonder what Geddes has done this week? What about Vinson? Anything since the last we talked? Well, Yuri Shwedoff is another one of those guys. I can’t even recall if I’ve ever mentioned him out here before or not. But his work is very mythological, and post-apocalyptical. Anyway, he’s published a very short process video of his work on creating White Castle.
White Castle is one my favorite pieces of all time. Just so massive in scope and scale and vision. Fantastic piece of work. Only wish I had created it! hahah. Painting’s like Geddess’ or Vinson’s or Shedoff’s just send my mind beyond the boundaries of the paintings themselves. I wander back behind the space shuttle in White Castle. I wonder about the person that pinned all the polaroids to the wall in Vinson’s ‘Abstraction Expression’.
Which makes me ponder the purpose and the reason for art… or specifically, a piece of art. Is it there to push the ideas of the artist? Sometimes. Banksy is there to almost solely push an idea. The art isn’t great, but the ideas are revolutionary. But truly great art, art that inspires, paints pictures upon the back of my prefrontal lob of things that are not there. Right? In this painting by Shwedoff, I wonder if this is a sentinel. Or maybe a lonely knight? Maybe there are feudal chieftains just on the other side of that bluff. I wonder how the shuttle ended up this way… what sort of technological collapse has occurred? Was there an asteroid collision? Have we just killed the earth through our own incompetence? It sends me on a path of thought that other art does not.
Anyway, I just loved this process video showing the buildup of White Castle. And thought I’d share.
