Walt Disney
from Genomic
24" x 48"
acrylic on canvas
2007
Private Collection, Los Angeles, California
Exhibitions
Bering & James, Houston, Texas, Genomic, November 2 - 23, 2007
Measuring 24" x 48", Walt Disney enters the Genomic Works sequence with saturated theatricality and coded evolution. The central portrait—pink and white, long-haired, stylized—is not Walt. It’s a placeholder. A speculative cousin. A visual echo of genetic relation that can’t be traced, only felt.


To the left of the portrait, a purple linear bar shifts into static—a recurring anomaly seen in earlier works. It marks not failure, but mutation. A leap. To the right, a blue anatomical diagram appears misaligned at the center—another signal of genomic adaptation. These are recalibrations. The genome is evolving.


Surrounding these elements, the canvas moves through cellular abstraction, chromatic gradients, digital motifs, and decorative overlays. Each band performs—ornament, entertainment, and latent tension. The genome here is saturated but unstable, stitched together from fragments of spectacle and symbolic residue.


Walt Disney becomes adaptation. A canvas of visual saturation and symbolic recursion, where identity flickers between myth, mutation, and forward motion.