Toilet Scrubber (version 4)

Toilet Scrubber (version 4)

35 X 30 inches

Print of drawing, cutout/collage material (paper and digital)

There are causes for which I named this piece thusly that I shall leave up to other parts of your mind to figure out. In the meanwhile, let’s explore for a few moments why I used the words I did here. The round headed object repeated at the center of interest looks like a toilet scrubber with its bristles and handle.

I thought of titling it Toil Rider, as one sort of rides toil when one cleans the bowl of one’s toilet. I wanted to give the image a sense of adventure and fun however, while mocking a chore that requires attention regularly. But then I just thought, “what the heck,” and I decided to just call it Toilet Scrubber. After all, that’s what it looks like. At least to me.

There are several toilet scrubbers in this piece. It looks like several repeated frames of a toilet scrubber in movement as it swishes around the bowl. Though, initially, you might be repelled by the whole idea, this piece would go well with your bathroom. It can serve as a diving board for inspiration as you ponder upon things while mentally belaboring one thing after another.

I combined an airplane view looking straight down at some industrial sites with a Micro-Chimerisms mosaic I’d drawn. The Micro-Chimerism I drew was drawn on the page of an old coffee table book exploring paranormal phenomena. I like doing ostensibly random things like this—layering seemingly unrelated subjects and items—in order to create new dynamic orders.