Wil Simpson Art

Wil Simpson Art - Whiskey Blackbird
Oil / Wood Panel
61 cm x 77 cm
2011

We are living in Art.
As we wander the streets, the aisles of stores or the malls.
We are surrounded by iconic art.
When we glide past a row of magazines, newspapers, tabloid newspapers, or a wall of video screens there is the art, right there in front of us.
So visible it is invisible.
This is my palette.

Celebrity, toys, media and products.
Fine Art for a desensitized, mind numbing world.
Eye candy for the emotionally impaired.
Celebrities are products, pre-packaged, mass produced, mass marketed, empty products for consumption that amount to nothing yet seem to mean everything.
And so they are treated as such, BIG today, small tomorrow.
The world remains the same and is perpetually changing, as is my work.
Like a mobius loop constantly changing,continually returning and reverting.
My work is a city street, a store shelf altered,changed and replicated.
Art can be anything we want, anything we like, anything we feel we need.
Remove all judgement, guilt and shame, and what are we left with?
Acceptance, truth, generosity and freedom.
My work is a truthful, not factual free interpretation, exploration and examination of everything in society, and the high ideals we rarely achieve.
Art is generous it only gives.
It is us that take away.
We live in Art.