William T. Wiley, Field of Dreams with Cluster Bombs, 2006

2006

Current Collection

San Francisco, USA

Medium: acrylic and charcoal on canvas
Dimensions: 162.6 × 193 cm
Status: In Gallery Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-1164852

For more than 50 years, the poet-philosopher Wiley has combined language and image, non-hierarchically, to address the most important social, political and environmental issues of the times. His visual vocabulary of repeating motifs, combined with word play – running internal monologues, spiked with puns, double entendre and malapropism – is an open-ended investigation into the moral issues of today's global citizen. In Field of Dreams with Cluster Bombs Wiley arranges common signs and symbols in an open web-like grid. These seemingly straight-forward images take on new meanings through their juxtaposition with other emblems and the language that surrounds them. The combinations both offer new perspectives and confuses their assumed meanings.

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