Core
from the History of Rock & Roll
60" x 48"
acrylic  and rhinestones on canvas
2010
Destroyed by fire, 2011
Exhibitions
Bering Art Collective, Houston, Texas, The History of Rock & Roll, October 9 - 30, 2010
Core marks the final phase in the arc of cultural transformation—the moment when an idea, once radical and disruptive, becomes so deeply embedded in the social body that it ceases to provoke.

 Rock & roll, once feared for its power to incite rebellion and fracture generational norms, now circulates quietly through the bloodstream of culture. Its pulse remains, but its shock has faded.


The central ribcage and spine evoke the anatomical seat of internalization. These bones protect what has been absorbed: the spirit of rock & roll, no longer external or oppositional, but woven into the everyday. The idea still radiates—its energy intact—but its voice is quieter now, less a shout than a breath.


Circuit-like patterns suggest a fusion of organic and synthetic memory: the way cultural movements become encoded not just in bodies, but in systems, technologies, and habits. The background’s molten hues—red, purple, blue—hint at the lingering heat of revolution, even as the form cools into structure.


Rhinestones glint like residual sparks, reminders of the music’s ecstatic origins. In Core, they are not spectacle—they are residue. Echoes of a sound that once shook the world, now humming beneath its surface.