Crazians: We're Still Here

Moye Ishimoto writes:


I’m still alive! At first I thought all the Crazians went crazian on me (what does that even mean?) and I’d never recover, but lo and behold, I’m still here. And guess what else is still here? The CRAZIANS! art show, which will be up at the WOW Storefront Gallery until August 8th. And no, I will not shut up about it until then. Three more weeks to go!

Featured above are two original pieces by John Lee, a freelance illustrator, printer, and writer based in Kansas City, Missouri. Wait, what? Kansas City? (I said that aloud in my head like those Old El Paso salsa-in-a-jar commercials, where the old cowboys would discover that their usual brand of salsa was made in New York City. New York CITY? Because you know, a mass-produced jarred salsa from General Mills is much more authentic than anyway else.)

Moving right along… John Lee’s two works are entitled the Battle of Anghiari and Battle of Cascina, both of which were inspired by the drawings of Michelangelo and Da Vinci depicting the two Florentine battles. John wrote that he interpreted the two illustrations with a more modern lens:

I kind of took a contemporary take on them; in the Anghiari print, instead of equine combat, I honed in on violence in the (ever-diminishing) natural world aka I've been watching way too much Blue Planet lately. And in the Cascina print, instead of showing a fight between bathing fighters, I showed some 4th-generation warfare (fighters, insurgents, etc. blending in with the populace) participants near an abandoned and war-torn public swimming pool.

Awesome, right? Right. Don’t you dare disagree with me. We have a limited amount of letterpress prints (numbered and signed) of these two pieces available. Each individual piece goes for $100, or $175 for the pair, or $250 for the framed pair hanging in our gallery.

– Moye Ishimoto

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