Drawing Exhibition Museum Bristol (194 Words)
The Myth of the Soul
At first sight Haines images appear to be nothing more than photo-realist images of the corruption of youths in today’s society, but these almost hyper-realistic drawings depict something much more sinister, with young clone like images of boys with their cold, hard nature seeming to drain all the colour out of the image, in an almost brutal way almost not letting us see the full extent of the damage. These capped and cloaked clones seem absorbed in almost fetishistic medieval torture, where their symbolised only by the branding they carry; here Haines plays with the names such as Osiris, Reebok, Classic and Nike Air, as if he’s trying to symbolise the mass consumerism and the ancient tribe like quality of purpose and idol worship. Past and present are fused together with a purposeful medieval quality with the drawings defying there digital oppressor layering meaning, attention and purpose, Haines definitely achieves what he calls a “pre-photo realism” affirming his drawings as a timeless and essential form of human expression and the brutality of the human soul.
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