Benjamin Davis Brockman

Drawing with micron and colored pencil, varnish pencil, gel roller on eastern paper.

The old rabbit thought himself wise, but he was a fool, for he stood with the Marigolds on the far side of a wide chasm. He longed there, sick in pride, as he watched the young lovers amongst the Free…sias - which he willed to wilt around them.MORE

Still from Puppetlab Performance At Heart of the Beast, Minneapolis Photo by Bruce Silcox

5 x 14 in. Etching 2010

Woodcut 8 x 4 ft. 2010-12. Chernobyl will be the next Chernobyl. We don't know what Fukushima will be yet. Both it is not arguable that both are inside every living thing on Earth - even in trace …amounts. Revelation 8:10-11: "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell on the third part of the rivers, and on the fountains of waters; [b]11[/b]And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter."MORE

Mezzotint w/ Colle 3x4 in. 2010

"The Sacred Trust" has multiple meanings. It is the name of a public art initiative, and the tagline for a guerilla marketing campaign, the title I give to my studio practice, as well as a g…eneral description of the feeling I have about my experience of the world around me. The Sacred Trust is also a place, where I create, or make a home for my creations. My studio is The Sacred Trust – the gallery is The Sacred Trust. My room, my kitchen, or any place at all. But really, is the spiritual feeling I have about my place in the world. The trust is my relationship to the natural world, and it is the feeling I have become confident in, which allows me to move through the world gracefully, and leave each person, place, or thing better than I find it. It comforts me to know that I am at the mercy of a natural order and a cosmic chaos, regardless of what I do, say or think. I firmly believe that mankind is a fleeting blink in a cosmic order, which we will never comprehend. The Sacred Trust Initiative, an ongoing public art project, adds a tiny bit of context in the daily lives of ordinary people. I have mailed out over 800 stickers as far as Beijing, and London, with QR linked segments of web material I have developed in relation to this body of work. The statement is wholly unclear at first glance, as the narrative is still growing, changing and gradually taking shape. However, the ultimate goal, should anyone engage the content in a curious way – looking behind the seemingly innocuous rabbit stickers and wheat pasted prints, is the same as in any of my singular works: to continually develop an intimacy between my subconscious and viewers from around the globe.MORE

7 x 4 ft. Oil on canvas. 2007. 

6 x 4 feet, in the Seward neighborhood. Aerosol, housepaint, acrylic.