I'm kind of curious...
What do people find interesting in those Ges or Kem canvases? I like the graffiti that both of them do, but in terms of art I'm just not feeling it. The bugs on the lightbox is kind of cool, but if you look at Kem's canvases its a posterized photo of a train yard screen printed (or cut out of paper in the second one?) with some sundial-like circles painted in a tint of the background color, and some 5's etched in the glass. The result is an unthoughtout hodgepodge which looks like it was made just for the sake of making a Kem5 canvas. In the first piece the placement of the etched 5s in no way help your eye move through the piece, instead acting more as a distraction. In the second piece, the traffic signal wire continuing from the etch to the photo is a nice effect, but then the van at the bottom looks awkward in relation to the street above it. The piece becomes very bottom heavy also with the pole leading your eye to the bottom where the detailed van and kem outline is.
In the first Ges canvas the little rectangles at the bottom with bones look totally amateur. I realize they relate to the number body parts, but they aren't integrated into the work at all. The placement of the bones in the darker background make them pop a lot, creating a focal point, even though the figure is much more interesting. Those numbers aren't doing much for me either...
I just don't see much substance. Anyway... call me a hater but I've always wondered this...
