A man of words and a man of his word, Kanye West:
There is an artistic continuity across all mediums. Kanye was a logical portrait subject, following his HAM partner Jay-Z. As a collage artist, the concept of standing amidst, alongside, in front and behind your words is captivating; who better to explore than rap artists?
After the jump, Kanye West — in his own words, manifested in my vision.
“I fantasized about this back in Chicago”; a quick continuous contour line drawing on the plastic wrap.
“…the first year that I blow, how you say broke in Spanish?”; a quick yellow paint sketch, which looks a lot like former Governor Patterson as played by Fred Armisen.
“I’m saying, I will never ever let you live this down, down, down”; Busting out a second contour line drawing to get a better likeness.
“got caught with 30 rocks, the cop look like Alec Baldwin”; Many cops look like Alec, get it? 30 Rock?
“I need a happy ending and a new beginning”; Kanye is lost in a sea of words.
“but they would try to crack me if they ever see a black me”; good thing I started out with an orange Kanye, we don’t like violence.
“…choke a southpark writer with a fishstick”; Ah, the boys at Southpark and their Kanye episode. At this stage, building up the color field, choking the newspaper’s natural color.
“I need more drinks and less lights”; and more darks to balance this canvas right.
“In this white man world we the one’s chosen”; to be outlined in white.
“Fuck SNL and the whole cast”; filling in Kanye’s glasses and beard with some near black.
“Got treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault”; Kanye’s head split into several outlines as I begin to cut down on the final form.
“everybody know (I’m a motherfucking monster)”; the Kanye at the bottom of the canvas is a constant reminder to let me finish the painting.
“and I’m bout to take it to another level bitch”; starting to separate the fore, middle and background. Kanye is looking like a robot at this stage.
“God damn Yeezy How I hit em with the new style”; an image of a wordsmith emerging from words ripped from the headlines produced by his words.
“Balled in and Donald Trump taking dollars from yall”; but for sure, he didn’t steal that sweet suit.
“When the sun go down its the magic hour”; white back drop, twilight to the sides and Kanye emerging.
“And I want to show you how you all look like beautiful stars tonight”; and the picture is coming into focus.
“I sent this girl a picture of my dick.”; but it turns out she liked Borbay’s painting of my head better.
“Livin’ life like we won the sweepstakes, what!”; the painting sweepstakes that is.
“You weren’t perfect but you made life worth it, Stick around, real feelings might surface”; and the final surface will surface.
“With so much of everything, how do we leave with nothing”; Kanye is complete, replete with color and conversation.
Kanye is the second in my new portrait series, following Jay-Z. Up next? The man of many names representing the White Party.
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