Incredible Little Tree: "...knowledge and danger can grow from the same soil."

Incredible Little Tree

12" x 16"

Mixed media

2012

This papercut highlights the tug between two extremes: the desire to know, and the desire to live. In the Garden of Eden our ancestors were told to eat freely of the tree of life, but not to touch the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This tree, backed with cut-up Hulk comics, explores the idea that knowledge and danger can grow from the same soil.

To make this piece I cut up a bunch of comics, including:

• The Incredible Hulk #2 – July 1962 (reprint), 240 – Oct 1979,
  280 – Feb 1983, 295 – May 1984, 296 – Jun 1984, 448 – Dec 1996
• Incredible Hulk #78 – Apr 2005
• Giant-size Incredible Hulk #1 – Jul 2008
• Hulk #4 – Aug 2008
• Ultimate Hulk Annual #1 – Dec 2008 

Now showing at the Peninsula JCC in Foster City, California – it's one of my many new works in the show, which will be open from January 4 through March 19, 2013.