The various sticker personalities are made from a variety of existing symbols and icons in contemporary society. As the sum of their parts, these characters are cute, if not dubiously sincere. Though when viewed more narrowly as separate collaged elements, this cuteness wanes to expose symbols of warfare, voyeurism and machismo. By utilizing already recognizable icons to create these faces, the viewer will project their own stereotypes in forming their opinion of these characters; much like we ignorantly label real people. The end goal is to visually and conceptually unify the collaged elements with the overall personality of the sticker. Using existing icons is the best way to bring the sticker characters to life. They act not merely as faces on paper, but rather will also manifest themselves in the mind of the viewer. One will remember the face of the smiling earth guy when viewing a globe, or the monster truck guy when seeing a jeep roll down the street or a hummer blast through a war zone. This is a simple and practical way for getting viewers to remember my artwork. The success of the stickers is directly based on their pervasiveness. The more the better. There are too many actual people and there should be too many made up sticker faces. Their ostensibly blind happiness and childish naivety always begs a smile or at least calls for some compassion. Two things that we need a hell of a lot more of. Email
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