Gerald Davis
Linsey's poo (Diptych)
2005
Oil on Canvas
213.5 x 165cm each panel |
Illustrating a childish ‘down there’ curiosity gone terribly wrong, Gerald Davis’s Linsey’s Poo is painted in fragrant teen-girl tones, innocently celebrating the naïve discovery of deviance. Set as a diptych, Davis’s canvases contain both image and text. In the panel on the right, delicate layers of pastel hue trace out the pubescent wishes of x-ray vision, pubis and bowels merging decoratively with tweenie fashion. On the right, a letter describing the joys of containment and relief emerges from Davis’s tangled patterning, the humiliating content humorously at odds with the bubbly script and Beyoncé writing pad. |