Aside from working with non-traditional materials in order to get at the meaning of the things we do in life, Lowman is also interested in... smiley faces. He says he first became interested in them because he was interested in the psychosis of the person who drew the "first" one: O.J. Simpson. He says:
He wrote [a letter after he was suspected of killing his then-wife, Nicole Brown-Simpson, and her lover, Ronald Goldman] to his fans as something of a suicide note and signed it "Peace and love, O.J." And the "O" in O.J. has this smiley face in it, and you just know from looking at it how f*cking crazy this person is for signing it that way. A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them. Four years ago I made a work based off the O.J. letter, and now I'm making a whole series of them. [via]
With the fact that Lowman's previously made artwork of bullet holes, I guess that and smiley faces can be linked, after all.
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With the fact that Lowman's previously made artwork of bullet holes, I guess that and smiley faces can be linked, after all.
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