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Roots of War in Popular Song (forest of no return)
by David Byrne

ARTIST STATEMENT

Drawing/diagrams (mostly) in the form of trees, which both elucidate and obfuscate the roots of contemporary phenomena and terminology. Sort of like borrowing the evolutionary tree format and applying it to other, often incompatible, things. In doing so a kind of humorous disjointed scientism of the mind heaves into view.

Published by McSweeney’s as Arboretum in 2006: Straight from the sketchbook, smudges and all, plus a four-foot foldout guide. It’s an eclectic blend of faux science, automatic writing, satire, and an attempt to find connections where none were thought to exist—a sort of self-therapy, allowing the hand to say what the voice cannot. Irrational logic, it’s sometimes called. The application of logical scientific rigor and form to basically irrational premises. To proceed, carefully and deliberately, from nonsense, with a straight face, often arriving at a new kind of sense. The world keeps opening up, unfolding, and just when we expect it to be closed—to be a sealed, sensible box—it shows us something completely surprising.

Tree Drawings courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery.


Below are five additional Tree Drawings, shown to give more context on this series. These images are not available as prints for purchase on 20×200.


Corporate to Personal Homeomorphism, 2004


From a seed it’s all downhill, 2007


Human Content, 2002


Military Technology, 2004


You’ll Get Used to It, 2004

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Roots of War in Popular Song (forest of no return)

by David Byrne

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