"Starman" Giclee Print by Alex Pardee

"Starman"
By Alex Pardee.
Limited Edition Of 50.
16" x 20" Printed with Archival Inks on Acid Free Velvet Cotton Rag.
Each print is hand signed and numbered by Alex Pardee.
This was originally created for Alex's art show "SELF PORTRAITS OF OTHER PEOPLE THAT I DREW ALL BY MYSELF PRETTY MUCH"
At the Upper Playground gallery Fifty24PDX in Portland

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Here is the story from Alex about the image:

I don’t grocery shop often, but for some reason, every time I go to the store by my studio, there is a man lingering in the pastry department. He always has one or 2 items in his cart, but never more. I always notice this guy, not because he blankly stares at various areas in his eye-line, but because I’m pretty sure he has cyanosis, which my aunt had for years before she got hit by the car. Anyway, for weeks I would casually just notice him and move on. But one day, I saw him do something strange. He reached over the counter when the clerk looked away and he grabbed a star-shaped cookie, palmed it in his hand and gently shoved it down the front of his pants as his eyes rolled back in his bluish head. I made a note to never get the star-cookies and moved on. But then I saw him do this every time. And the more I became mesmerized by his actions, I began to pay attention to more details. He wore hideous shooting star earrings, and the items in his cart were always “star-related”: star-shaped pasta noodles, Rockstar energy drinks, starch, Star Magazine, etc. It wasn’t hard to interpret his obsession as some kind of sexual hang-up, seeing as how he pretty much fucked those cookies on the spot. He was fascinating to me, both because he seemed to be so sly about this obsession, and because I often pictured how he would react to the giant alien starfish that I have been hiding from the government since last year. Maybe I’ll show it to him someday when I feel like my karma needs a boost. But then again, I’m not too sure how I feel about alien rape, unless of course I can put the footage online.