"(S)traphanger" by Cojo is going to be a painting derived from a mix of city elements, faces, and abstract forms eventually merging from the details developed over the course of a year in the Sketch365 "Rendered Quick Thought" experiment to form a symbiotic and cohesive vision of urban chaos.
In this series Cojo pulls images from his experiences and travels on the streets and subways of NYC and Philly and grinds them with lead into paper in his slick lined style. The canvas and paint reality to come should be nothing shy of spectacular.
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"(S)ex", by Cojo, is going to be a painting derived from a mix of fluid curves, bosoms, faces, sexual memories, fantasy and abstract forms eventually merging from the details developed over the course of a year in the Sketch365 "Rendered Quick Thought" experiment to form a symbiotic and cohesive vision of eroticized chaos.
In this series Cojo pulls images from his experiences, fantasies, fetishes, and desires as well as the universally accepted and commercialized societal ideals of sex and beauty and grinds them with lead into paper in his slick lined style. The canvas and paint reality to come should be nothing shy of spectacular.
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"(S)tory Time", by Cojo, is going to be a painting derived from a mix of childhood imprints, story book heroes, fables, nursery rhyme figures, legends, and abstract forms eventually merging from the details developed over the course of a year in the Sketch365 "Rendered Quick Thought" experiment to form a symbiotic and cohesive vision of childhood's introduction into imagination.
In this series Cojo pulls images from his childhood mind, some unchanged, some warped by time, experience, and the realities that come with aging, and grinds them with lead into paper in his slick lined style. The canvas and paint reality to come should be nothing shy of spectacular.
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"(S)pace", by Cojo, is going to be a painting derived from a mix of Jr. High Science, curiosity for the infinite unknown, piles of dog-eared paperbacks ranging from Issac Asimov to Einstein, and abstract forms eventually merging from the details developed over the course of a year in the Sketch365 "Rendered Quick Thought" experiment to form a symbiotic and cohesive vision of all that exists beyond the scope of the naked eye on the macro scale.
In this series Cojo pulls images from his memories of science fiction movies, books, cartoons, documentaries, and comics and grinds them with lead into paper in his slick lined style. The canvas and paint reality to come should be nothing shy of spectacular.
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"(S)ports", by Cojo, is going to be a painting derived from a mix of hulking all stars, neandertal ideals of peak fitness, chiseled bruits warring on their respective playing fields of strictly rule enforced battle, eventually merging from the details developed over the course of a year in the Sketch365 "Rendered Quick Thought" experiment to form a symbiotic and cohesive vision of sport embodied.
In this series Cojo pulls images from the testosterone fueled Darwinian alpha-perception of physical sport perfection, and grinds them with lead into paper in his slick lined style. The canvas and paint reality to come should be nothing shy of spectacular.
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"(S)ea", by Cojo, is going to be a painting derived from a mix of distorted sea life, fantastical underwater creatures, imagined secret netherworld gardens, coiled, finned, scaled wonders and abstract forms eventually merging from the details developed over the course of a year in the Sketch365 "Rendered Quick Thought" experiment to form a symbiotic and cohesive vision of the aquatic world living beneath our own.
In this series Cojo pulls images from his imagination, lazy prepubescent days spent pouring through endless stacks of National Geographic Magazine, as well as memories of childhood snorkeling on Vermont's Lake Champlain, the Jersey Shore, Maui, Miami, and Montauk, and grinds them with lead into paper in his slick lined style. The canvas and paint reality to come should be nothing shy of spectacular.
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"(S)in", by Cojo, is going to be a painting derived from a mix of the most famous of the seven deadly sins, other lesser sins, demons, devils, evil, and abstract forms eventually merging from the details developed over the course of a year in the Sketch365 "Rendered Quick Thought" experiment to form a symbiotic and cohesive vision of evil and the allure of temptation.
In this series Cojo pulls images from his imagination, memories of Dante's inferno, classic myths, and vague interpretations of iconic cartoon representations of evil, and grinds them with lead into paper in his slick lined style. The canvas and paint reality to come should be nothing shy of spectacular.
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"(S)ocialite", by Cojo, is going to be a painting derived from a mix of the young elite sophisticates, sickening glam, pampered primadonnas, blinging divas, debutantes, saccharine sweet sixteens, Mtv pimped red carpet rides, cribs worship, lifestyles of the rich and the famous, paparazzi, party drugs, the beautiful people, as well as abstract forms eventually merging from the details developed over the course of a year in the Sketch365 "Rendered Quick Thought" experiment to form a symbiotic and cohesive vision of all that glitters and the tarnish within.
In this series Cojo pulls images from pop culture's force fed consumer's wet dream of the money for nothing and the chicks for free lush life and grinds them with lead into paper in his slick lined style. The canvas and paint reality to come should be nothing shy of spectacular.
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"(S)lumber Land", by Cojo, is going to be a painting derived from a mix of phantasmagoric dream images, nightmares, fears, and abstract forms eventually merging from the details developed over the course of a year in the Sketch365 "Rendered Quick Thought" experiment to form a symbiotic and cohesive vision of lucid recall.
In this series, much like Windsor McCay's Little Nemo In Slumber Land, for which this painting is named, Cojo pulls images from his dreams, and grinds them with lead into paper in his slick lined style. The canvas and paint reality to come should be nothing shy of spectacular.
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"(S)uperhero", by Cojo, is going to be a painting derived from a mix of iconic super-powered do-gooders, silver age caped crusaders, marauding villains, large breasted pubescent amazonian fantasy babes, and abstract forms eventually merging from the details developed over the course of a year in the Sketch365 "Rendered Quick Thought" experiment to form a symbiotic and cohesive vision of the artist's homage to his comic book baby shoes.
In this series Cojo pulls images from his teenage years and and three time high school intern turned colorist for Marvel Comics, (Cojo did random color work for Spider-Man, Punisher, Fantastic Four and many others, from age 16-21) and grinds them with lead into paper in his slick lined style. The canvas and paint reality to come should be nothing shy of spectacular.
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