You can see it in his fevered expression. The haunted, sunken eyes, the lips like a single strip of flesh cut from a vienna sausage with a ‘Xacto knife, a pink ribbon of dead flesh. He is the dark lord of the Chipmunks, and his team is going to WIN.
Ballpoint chest hair is a new one for me. It really just makes him paler.
For me, this seems like a portrait of Soccer Dad. Unwanted, unnecessary, and desperately annoying, doing his best to steer the team from the bleachers, howling paeons to the awkward and pre-gangling gods of junior athleticism. He may, or he may not, have a beer. That’s really more about the community standards than the archetype.
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I’m guessing Tweety Bird is the mascot. I kind of expected the mascot to be a chipmunk. Maybe his name is “Chipmunk.” Bob Chipmunk, perhaps. He isn’t even a member of the team, he just had a burnt orange shirt embroidered with the name of a rodent.
Please! Let me in! I have glory days to relive! Look, I can almost fit into these shorts again!
Savers on North Lamar, Austin
One Response to “GO CHIPMUNKS”
It’s the hypno eyes that make this piece scream. I’m glad the artist followed through with leg hair, too. Nice attention to detail.