Groovy Tanks Are A Steal At Less Than $8.58 Million!
I remember drawing as a kid. I had little doodles and drawings all over my notebooks. Some of the drawings were of elaborate war scenes. Some of the drawings were large and complex with hundreds of little figures.
Tanks. Helicopters. Submarines.
Explosions. Of course, explosions!
I’ve never forgotten these scenes.
For fun, I brought a couple back. Two Fuse burned tanks on photographs.
Renee thinks I am acting like a little boy again.
I am.
Was it those drawings that lead me to gunpowder art?
But, I paint for world peace.
So, I hope these groovy tanks help keep the peace.
I’m certain they will at your house.
With a fuse burned tank or two you can sleep easy at night. You’ll know you are groovy! You’ll know you are safe!
As a bonus, they look really cool.
New Army tanks cost $8.58 million each.
These pop art ones are a steal at only $150.
Next up?
A submarine.
BOOM!
Artist Stick Vega studied mathematics and economics, earning a B.S. in economics from UW-Madison and an MBA from Edgewood College. He owned and was CEO of online apparel retailers WinterSilks and Venus Sportswear. However, upon selling the companies more than a decade ago he headed straight to his studio - The Blast Factory in Madison, WI - to create explosive, modern art with gunpowder and high-speed fuse. Stick's current work includes paintings, drawings, fusographs (exploded photographs), sculpture and writing. Please follow Stick on Facebook and/or Twitter.
Groovy Tank #2 (2018) 12" x 12" Fusograph.
I was acting like a little boy again and sketched this simple fuse drawing of a tank. It is made of fluid burned lines on an abstract groovy pink, orange, and blue background. I am more into peace than tanks. But these are cool!
These new artworks combine my photography, hand-held and fast burning fuse. I call these new works fusographs - which is short for fuse burned photographs. Fusographs are logical progression for me as my work continues to evolve. I do a lot of photography and I love to burn and explode things.
The process is much tougher than you realize. The photographic papers burn very quickly. I need to work minimally and fast.
Brisk.
Photographs scratch and mar easily. So I need to work in a light and delicate way.
Gentle.
Primitive. Modern. Explosive.
Unframed.
American gunpowder artist, Vega carefully places powder and fuses on the surface of the art, which he positions horizontally on the floor (or blast table). When ignited, first the fuses burns instantly along the cord lines, igniting the gunpowder and creating a blast, which then vanish in clouds of smoke. The result is a textured surface that looks and feels like an explosion—the art is blackened, charred, and erupted, arrested in a state of being created in a flash.
When the fuse is lit there is a moment of uncertainty. What will happen? It is at that moment that true art exists.
Groovy Tank #1 (2018) 12" x 12" Fusograph.
I was acting like a little boy again and sketched this simple fuse drawing of a tank. It is made of fluid burned lines on an abstract groovy pink, orange, and blue background. I am more into peace than tanks. But these are cool!
These new artworks combine my photography, hand-held and fast burning fuse. I call these new works fusographs - which is short for fuse burned photographs. Fusographs are logical progression for me as my work continues to evolve. I do a lot of photography and I love to burn and explode things.
The process is much tougher than you realize. The photographic papers burn very quickly. I need to work minimally and fast.
Brisk.
Photographs scratch and mar easily. So I need to work in a light and delicate way.
Gentle.
Primitive. Modern. Explosive.
Unframed.
American gunpowder artist, Vega carefully places powder and fuses on the surface of the art, which he positions horizontally on the floor (or blast table). When ignited, first the fuses burns instantly along the cord lines, igniting the gunpowder and creating a blast, which then vanish in clouds of smoke. The result is a textured surface that looks and feels like an explosion—the art is blackened, charred, and erupted, arrested in a state of being created in a flash.
When the fuse is lit there is a moment of uncertainty. What will happen? It is at that moment that true art exists.