Space Boy-Elvis Duel
40" x 12" oil on canvas
As a boy, I thought cowboys were really cool. I dressed Western style and wanted to be a gunslinger. I could see times were changing. The cultural imagination was shifting frontiers from the range to outer space. I was determined to live in the heartbeat of the new era. Elvis, who also played Indians and cowboys, represented the old guard. Although he was once my hero, the King of Rock 'n' Roll had to go. In this symbolic Oedipal moment, Space Boy confronts Elvis in his Charo garb with futuristic technology, but the King is reluctant to surrender his throne.
40" x 12" oil on canvas
As a boy, I thought cowboys were really cool. I dressed Western style and wanted to be a gunslinger. I could see times were changing. The cultural imagination was shifting frontiers from the range to outer space. I was determined to live in the heartbeat of the new era. Elvis, who also played Indians and cowboys, represented the old guard. Although he was once my hero, the King of Rock 'n' Roll had to go. In this symbolic Oedipal moment, Space Boy confronts Elvis in his Charo garb with futuristic technology, but the King is reluctant to surrender his throne.
40" x 12" oil on canvas
As a boy, I thought cowboys were really cool. I dressed Western style and wanted to be a gunslinger. I could see times were changing. The cultural imagination was shifting frontiers from the range to outer space. I was determined to live in the heartbeat of the new era. Elvis, who also played Indians and cowboys, represented the old guard. Although he was once my hero, the King of Rock 'n' Roll had to go. In this symbolic Oedipal moment, Space Boy confronts Elvis in his Charo garb with futuristic technology, but the King is reluctant to surrender his throne.