2022/10/14

Digital Artist Jon Rafman Quips about Signs and Symbols That Show up in His Work

“I don’t have the level of knowledge of the classics as someone like Ezra Pound did, obviously. But I do know about Bonk’s Adventure, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Saturday morning cartoons.”
– Digital artist Jon Rafman, contrasting the sprawling breadth of videogames and pop culture contemporary artists draw from versus the narrow canon referenced by modernist novelists and poets (like Pound). “But I do also know a little about Shakespeare and Chaucer,” the Canadian artist adds.
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