Albert

Albert utilizes three distinct modes of visual language and plays with our expectations of these as representations of the real. The arrangement of oranges is painted in a traditional, realistic manner. The image of Albert is from a high school yearbook, specific in that it records a unique identity at a precise moment. Interfering with our reading of this anonymous high school senior is Donald Duck. Donald functions in almost the reverse manner as Albert - he is shown to us with a few well-practiced graphic lines, yet his image and personality are recognized almost universally. In a sense, Albert is a stand-in for us, and Donald, despite his comic innocence, is a representative of one of the world's most widespread corporate powers.
- Tom Gregg