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• Watch the video at showmedo.com [larger size and higher quality video]
• Read the tutorial. [pdf 676k]
• Download the materials.
• Bushfinger FAQ
• Buy a fine art print of Bushfinger #5
• Buy Bushfinger related items at CafePress.

I painted the first Bushfinger in 2005. I’d been playing with a number of political images when I came across a video clip of a pre-presidential George W Bush flipping the bird (when he believed he was off-air), the combination of the childish, furtive act, and his obvious indifference to the consequences seemed to resonate with his actions as president. By selecting a number of frames from the video I captured the essence of the action.

The quote by Carl Gustav Jung - “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” - seemed an obvious fit. The first Bushfinger was sold to a collector in texas, which seems appropriate. I subsequently used images from the clip in a diptych [bushfinger #2], and two further versions of the original piece, which are now in private hands.

The video tutorial represents the fifth and largest of execution of the concept.

update Bushfinger#5 is currently hanging in the window of shardcorner in Brighton.

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