Classic Creighton Gann

This is a collection of a few of my classic illustrations. The majority of these works are from my undergraduate years as a student at the Memphis College of Art. I created most of these pieces with acrylic, color pencil, graphite, ink, and with minimal reference. During my time as a student, cartoons, U2, caricature, pop culture, literature, various music, and new media heavily influenced me. Feel free to take a stroll with me down memory lane, and when color was cool! Long live the nineties!

There is no truth in representation

There is no truth in representation,

and yet a debt is due.

within a rendering of technical pride,

certainly not of virtue.

Where is truth's essence in the mastering of a copy,

or in the creation of a thing?

If rendering for what is owed not felt,

then there is nothing left to bring.

A martyr to mark making that would die for a truth,

that can never be defined.

results in imitation or a double,

that eventually poisons the mind.

but if truth is owed, could it be altered from the real?

and what would be the cost?

Would it redefine a way of thinking?

or weep for essence that was lost?

Must the representational ghost return,

so that the truth may be revealed?

Was there ever a debt to begin with,

when what is owed has been concealed?

To abstract what is real in the world,

allows equipment to be created.

but already residing in a world of things,

this idea would seem belated.

So the snare of truth has been set forth,

and through intricate planning was laid.

There was never truth in representation,

and now the piper must be paid.

Acknowledge this debt,

for restitution's sake.

Allow the essence of truth to return,

and embrace the art it makes.