Brian Howell’s latest series shifts slightly away from the controlled layered narrative that we are used to seeing in his work. In Chainsaw Rorschach Test, Brian has dismantled and repurposed a familiar laden object to create a duality of perception, the cursory illusion and then the latent rational reading. These powerful presented images, robotic by design, effectively form a visual bond with …
Brian Howell’s latest series shifts slightly away from the controlled layered narrative that we are used to seeing in his work. In Chainsaw Rorschach Test, Brian has dismantled and repurposed a familiar laden object to create a duality of perception, the cursory illusion and then the latent rational reading. These powerful presented images, robotic by design, effectively form a visual bond with the viewer and addresses our thorny relationship with technology and the ideology of progress.
The portable chainsaw, a Canadian invention, entered British Columbia’s forest in 1937 and reshaped the …
