I see a life-long hedonistic romp, consisting of endless wants and needs, self-servitude, and unconscious gradual self-destruction, brought on by an ignorant, blind interpretation of worldliness.

Larry Peebles ... 6/15/01

The guy in the bottle is trapped there, and the "monsters" are watching and ogling. They want to keep him there because they're intrigued by him, but also slightly frightened. His body is dying, but his soul is escaping,
because it can't be trapped in a bottle. The tail up in the corner is just wondering what the fuck is going on.

Jacob Chanowsk ... 6/15/01

It's one creature grasping a man trapped in a bottle (possibly suggesting man trapped by the evil government/system?). It has phallic symbolism as well, testicles in upper left corner and a lot of pointed tips The creature(s) has swallowed someone and swallowed again, mainly fish creatures

LINK DIGGER ... 6/15/01

This may sound a little fishy, but, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder!

Sherry ... 6/16/01

I see a person that was regular once. Turned into a demon by a psychotic college fraternity! he's forced
to drink this liquid person as a part of his pledge and after he takes the first sip he feels the strange
alien creatures consuming his arms like a bad virus or some sort of oppression. Almost like all the strange
creatures becoming a part of him were once in the same position he was in.

John De-Witt ... Upbeat Depression ... http://www.mp3.com/upbeatdepression ... 6/16/01

I see someone who is having an internal struggle with alcohol. But his addiction has got to the point where he cannot control. The big assed monster thing is his addiction, and his small frail body is trapped inside the booze bottle. Addiction is a cancer of the soul. Growing larger and larger, blacker, and more putrid smelling day after day.

Mike Magee ... 6/16/01

I see an entity that has been comsumed by it's fears. it had kept these fears of things unknown/alien, of things with shape and without a defined form, inside a bottle deep inside itself. one day he/she/it woke up and found the bottle had turned inside out. i would imagine this is what many people who refuse to confront their fears and problems eventually end up with...

Tracy T ... 6/16/01

Wow! He put me in that bottle!‰ That is myself, or at the very least, my soul trapped in a glass bottle, knowing that I am imprisoned, but still able to see what is on the outside trying to get at me and destroy me. Arising from the bottle... attatched to my head, is my guilt hovering over me, armed with a weapon. It is not in the bottle with me because it is a part of the outside world driving me crrAaaZZzzzY. The fish head represents the ridiculousness and stupidity of the fact that I should possess so much guilt, (because really, I‚m a good girl:)) The beast holding the bottle, would be (and honestly, not meaning to offend my mother or any family members) my mother, and perhaps even just family in generally. The reason I say my mother is because that is her, trying to get me out of the bottle and be a part of my life, yet she has no idea how scary and vulgar that concept is for me. The little creatures inside of the big one are all the problems family has caused me throughout the years, in my conscience and my overall mentality. I don‚t know why but the creature with the word bubble has some sort of significant meaning over all the rest. It looks rather cute and forlorn. I‚d say that is my childhood looking at myself now, going, „What the fuck happened?‰ with an obvious, shocked expression on its face. That is my subjective interpretation. I think the reason I immediately interpreted as something representative of my life, other than something objective, is because lately I‚ve been dissecting my mind and trying to figure things out. Plus I think that interpretations of people‚s artworks, or even literature for that matter, are very revealing of what kind of person someone is. It kind of shows the way they look at the world and is always subconsciously, in some way, related to their life or what they‚ve been through.

Liz Jacobs ... 6/16/01

The obligationist ...
that painting is fantastic. As usual. The best part of the painting, for me, is the Arm part, and the tale part. it makes me think about life , how people "eat up" eachother, whitout any rational reason, and on the and of this meaningless foodchain, is just nothing, or evenworst than the beginning. I see in this painting, the many faces of llife, represented in small details, like the creation in the bottle, whitout space to live, the claustrophobia, leak of space, makes her mind a slave, of the civiization, but her soul tries to ecape, in a violent form. I see this all the time, on th street, everywhere. And the main creature`s smile, is just the morbid promise, "everything s`gonna be fine", but if you take a closer look, and you are a realist, than you just have to take the pain, the pain of the truth, that nothing will be fine, never.

Peter ... 6/16/01

In a compact answer I see 'Tops for my kindling pile'.

Ellen ... 6/16/01

This piece reminds me of "Gin and Acid" and I see it as being about alcohol. The parts that really catch my eye are in the upper R and L corner - the self decapitating torso penis-fish, and the gas mask
figure. that penis-fish, to me, is an emblem of self-desctructive polymorphyous indulgence, unleashed. Gas mask guy counterbalance that somehow, it's a masked and compartmentalized impulse. It's also sort of
a graphic nod to Spy Vs. Spy??

Todd Souvignier ... 6/16/01 ... http://www.neteze.com/todds/intro.html

I SEE ME TRYING TO WIN A FREE FUCKING PRINT......SO
FORK OVER YA GREEDY OLD SON OF A BITCH!

Jack The Ripper ... 6/16/01

What oozes out when I fall and break my head -or- Old black & white re-runs or the Andy griffith show after I smoke peote, that big thing is Anut Bea and she is mad at litte Opey for masturbateing in the corn patch again so she put him in the bottle -or- GOD -or- SATAN -or- BOTH -or- That one guy who did that one thing that one time someplace awhile ago, you know who I mean -or- The hurt and pain my addictions cause the people around me -or- Maybe it's just the women of my dreams? How did you know? Get out of my head! Stange as it soundz, those are really gut reactions. Your art makes my crazy side start talking again. This one is no differnt.

PS, I love fried chicken

Johnny Porno ... 6/16/01

Its a gray dismal day, might as well get fucked up.

Demos ... 6/16/01

I see a vision of vice and polution . The never ending chain of man eats man eats man, vice brings vice, brings vice, brings vice

docstove ... 6/16/01

I see myself in this picture. Every 'veined' part in the painting seems to be covered in some way..whether its 'masked' or being eaten, except for the veined creature coming from the bottle. I see this as a painting about alcohol bringing out ones inner self which is usually hiden (the veined parts). in this painting I see my drunken self, I am the one trapped in the bottle and the fish/penis thing is my innerself escaping through the alcohol consumption. Were one thing is coming out of anothers mouth over and over.. i see this as one weakness feeding another...the never ending cycle of alcohol induced insanity. I see the inner-self i speak of (the veined fish/penis) as sabbotaging itself .. the abrupt creature is cutting its head off.. showing that drinking is killing the person inside.

Helen ... 6/17/01

Alcohol WILL eat you up.

Trust me, I know...

Michael ... 6/17/01

I see a crazy seeker/fool looking for enlightenment in a bottle of some caustic beverage in which he sees his trapped spirit. Bottle of spirits! However, the genie in this bottle is self-execution, and still the serpent devours him, inch by inch. Why doesn't he notice it? All eyes are on the bottle, his supposed salvation from the criticism of those who live behind masks. He defecates them. Is this seeker an holistic entity? He certainly has parts, all of which are in a constant state of consuming the rest. Are we thinking about the futility of looking for truth in neurotoxins? Hell, I don't know. I think I'll have another beer and send this on.

Alex ... 6/17/01

I see what my shit looks like the mourning after a night of heavy binge beer drinking. Theres lots of it too, shit everyware. It rockets out of my ass like a morter shell and throws shrapnel all over the side of the bowl and back on my bare sweaty ass. He smells real bad and wants to hurt me. He truely is a monster that I "gave birth to" Then, when my head is throbing like its going to pop I get up to flush him away and he makes that face at me......just like in the painting. But I have his number. He thinks he is invincible, but then I take at least 10mg doses of ATIVAN or VALIUM to kill him. The face goes away and he is nothing more then a floating clump of shit
in an unflushed toilet. And then I jiggle the handel.....the shit monster has been vanquished!!!

"Fuk Yu (It's Vietnamese!)" ... 6/17/01

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