REVIEW: wayne white’s pirate
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
review: WAYNE WHITE’S PIRATE
A great advantage to living in Los Angeles is that you are surrounded by an enormous amount of talent. In our neighborhood lives Wayne White - an artist who has no doubt transformed most of our childhoods through his notable work on Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Throughout the years he has created magnificent, living sculptures that include giant, cardboard puppets and mobile monsters. He also regularly exhibits his “word paintings” - beautiful designed words that are methodically painted onto found landscape art. White recently collaborated with his son, Woodrow, to create epic works of puppetry for the Future Islands music video, “Born in a War”. For Halloween this year, Wayne White has created a larger than life cardboard-sculpted pirate head that overlooks the winding streets of Los Angeles.
This cardboard sculpture incorporates numerous elements from White’s past work, including his use of dynamic facial expressions in Pee-wee’s Playhouse and his fantastical structures for The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight Tonight” music video.The details of the pirate were absolutely incredible, and included hundreds of cardboard cuttings that formed his bristly beard and overgrown eyebrows. The sombre, scowling expression of this ancient mariner was enhanced by strategically placed warts, a lolling tongue, and multi-tiered forehead wrinkles. On top of that, a blood soaked cutlass pierced through the pirate’s temples…..his executioner knowing obviously that “dead men tell no tales”.
Wayne White’s Pirate display is proof that a single piece of art can bring joy to neighbors far and wide. Halloween is about sharing your creativity with the community, and we are very lucky that Wayne White is willing to share his imagination in celebration of the spirit of the season.
VC
November 04, 2021
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