To Your Scattered Bodies Go
©1991 Craig Ashby
3.875” x 3.875”
Collage

Here is To Your Scattered Bodies Go. First in a series of random bits that have never been shown on the web. As far as I can remember.

I think these proto pieces date from around 1991, but that timeline feels fuzzy. I know they were created after the Itek series and before the Supermodel series. But the more I think about it, the Itek series would have come much earlier. Maybe 1989 or 1990. My how time becomes more flexible the less you are able to remember it.

Definitive dates aside, this would have been the precursor to the Supermodel series. I post these because I have never shared them on the internet. They also show the beginning of almost every idea I still touch on to this day.

At the time I made this it didn’t have a title. I think I gave the piece the Philip Jose Farmer book title for some college application. When I scanned these recently I kept the title because of my fondness for the piece and the book.

The piece itself is very simple. An apocalyptic cloudscape. Four rendered aluminum can bottoms depicting the pressure patterns and their corresponding color key. And a vintage naked model stolen from Thomas Malic.

Simple idea with a nice impact. The vintage nude giving just enough gay sensibility. The tin cans adding both a computer graphics element and a laughable banality. All well worn themes in my pieces.