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"Untitled". Original Painting / Collage. Featured in Regulate The Chemicals(Limited to 1).

$500.00

I did this colllage/painting in 1999. I wasn't much of a visual artist but I liked tearing up old magazines and painting on them. It was a pretty direct and quick way to make some dark or disturbing images. I was sort of into that aesthetic back then.

When my band Twothirtyeight was making our record "Regulate The Chemicals" we were really into polaroid cameras. Even then polaroids were a thing of the past and we loved the novelty of them. We took a lot of vibey polaroids back then.

I took a bunch of polaroids around the house. I lived with my parents at the time. Inside the CD jacket and LP jacket are polaroids of things at my house: A body board, a guitar, portraits of all of us individually. One of the polaroids was of this painting that was on the shelf in my bedroom.

This image got printed in thousands of cds and lps and were distributed all over the world. Our original label Takehold was merged with a larger label Tooth and Nail Records and this only increased the reach of our albums. Soon after that Tooth and Nail was bought by Capitol Records so we essentially were a major label band and our records were in all kinds of retail stores, no longer an underground post-rock band.

Miraculously I still have this painting. It's been in a box of other twothirtyeight keepsakes for 25 years. I say the condition is fair. It's not completely flat but if it were matted and framed it could be flattened and preserved for another 25 years or longer. The white paper has some rough edges. I can't tell if it was always like that or if it has degraded some over time. I'm happy to take more more pics if you are interested.

I mainly just wanted to tell the story of this piece of humble art. I'm happy to keep it forever so I have priced it steeply.

If you do buy it I'd be very grateful and I will used the money to release my next record.

- 12" x 14"
- Textured off-white art paper applied to thick black cardstock
- Acrylic paint

* CD not included in sale.

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