FAILE

FAILE is an North American artistic Collaboration between Patrick Miller (1976, Minneapolis)and Patrick McNeil (1975, Edmonton). Based in Brooklyn, New York, FAILE started in 1999. Their work consists on mixed media; stenciling, wheatplasting in what looks like an experimental fragment collage. The images they use to create their collages fuse key and ignored parts of culture throughout history, including religion, politics and monarchy, architecture, comics, TV shows key moments in media and films etc..

Like what I said about the religious context, here we see the head of the Hindu God Ganesha.

There are various versions of this same print. But I do prefer this version due to the colour composition, it's a very pale piece the pastel colours look very warm and soft, it actually reminds me of an early morning on a summer day because of the dim gold in the background and the head piece and jewellery on Ganesha.

The head of Ganesha appears very feminine, which isn't a surprise when it come to FAILE seeing as the majority of centre pieces of their work are females from comics or other cartoons. As is the majority of FAILE's work the background and some of the main part are torn pieces of adverts, flyers and comic strips.