Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation
Edward M. Corpus
de Afarensis -- 8 x 10 watercolor, mixed media
Failure To Communicate -- 24 x 30 acrylic painting
I create art, and I write about creating art and the creative process that’s the birthright of all. I write about the patriarchal dominance culture that kills creative process, and what I think we should do about it.
Popular culture often alienates us from true intimacy with our living environment and each other, divides us by ethnicity, gender, age and economic status. In these troubled times, is it possible to make art that compels social conscience without being preachy or didactic? That moves emotions without manipulation? Informs without being propagandistic? Maybe. I’ll give it a shot. |
I’m a culturally subversive independent visual artist and writer creating humanist, socially aware art. I invite you to view a range of work at emcanimator.com and to sign up for a newsletter that may alternately inform and outrage you. I use traditional and digital media, and have added comic sequential art to my repertoire.
The experiences of being a male of Asian ethnicity born eight years after the end of World War II and surviving the excesses of six decades in America color my world outlook and its creative expression. 
Pretty In Pink, 16 x 20 inches, Pastel
Phyllis Coates and the Origin of My Fetish – 24 x 30 acrylic painting
I desire to make art that outrages, motivates or inspires; art that evokes hilarity or sadness and compels the viewer to see the universe in which we dwell in ways not otherwise seen. The poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller asserted that you subvert social culture through its entertainment. Perhaps, I can even entertain you as I subvert your common beliefs and seduce you into joining me.
The game is rigged, and it stays rigged through popular culture. I aim to use art and writing to beat that game. I won’t always get it right, but I’m learning. |
Though I’ve worn many “hats” in life, I’ve been conscious of myself as an artist since the age of three. Adversity could have robbed me of that passion, had it not been for the intervention of efficient witnesses -- advocates for my creative humanity. Through art, writing, volunteering and quiet activism, in turn I aim to be an efficient witness for the creative humanity of all peoples.
Some of my images are horrendous, some beautiful — visual metaphors of trauma and transcendence, failure and redemption, loss and recovery. I draw my subject matter from human behavior ranging from the grotesque to the beautiful to the ridiculous. (Often life is not a laughing matter; sometimes love and laughter is the best and only answers.) 
Riding the Broom On Fourth Street – 24 x 30 acrylic painting
The Shaman – 20 x 30 pastel painting
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