band

Fully Wholly Collection: Because The Kids Don’t Play

by be.

1-Disney_wholly_title

Fully Wholly: Disney Collection

(Because The Kids Don’t Play)

This collection of Whollys is based on the loss of innocence. It’s based on our neglect for the children around us, and how many of my generations childhood experiences so differ from those of the youth growing up today. I wanted to take the most recognizable children’s icons and create awkward, intriguing, and somewhat disturbing juxtapositions to a poem that I wrote to accompany the set.

The accompanying poem goes as follows:

Because The Kids Don’t Play

Because the kids don’t play,
We’ll bomb the slide.
No knees that bleed,
Nor heart inside.

Because the kids don’t laugh,
We’ll hold the joke,
Withholding hope
With a loop & rope.

Because the kids don’t love,
We’ll let them fuck.
And show them what is
Just enough.

Because the kids don’t fly,
We’ll make them sink.
Their growth ignored,
Explored to shrink.

Because the kids don’t live,
We’ll let it die.
Our joy destroyed by foolish pride.
Our souls devoid of a need to cry;
Of love & such,
Denied.

- Bryan Espiritu.

Enjoy. And please, if you blog them, give appropriate credit.

Love&Respect,
be.

2-Disney_wholly_title_Main

1_Disney_wholly_Mickey
2_Disney_wholly_Goofy
3_Disney_wholly_Minnie
4_Disney_wholly_Donald
5_Disney_wholly_Bomb

6_Disney_wholly_Mickey_detail

Disney’s Mickey Mouse Fully Wholly by Bryan Espiritu

7_Disney_wholly_Goofy_detail

Disney’s Goofy Fully Wholly by Bryan Espiritu

8_Disney_wholly_Minnie_detail

Disney’s Minnie Mouse Fully Wholly by Bryan Espiritu

9_Disney_wholly_Donald_detail

Disney’s Donald Duck Fully Wholly by Bryan Espiritu

—-

What’s a Wholly?

A “Wholly” is a stylized character who is composed of a base or shell that generally has 4 holes in it. Those 4 holes provide me with endless possibilities to solving graphic problems. I use the base or shell as a canvas to create the character, and the holes to act as ports to extensions of the character.

www.FullyWholly.com

—-

I’ve worked incredibly hard on this collection, and I find it ironic that I completed it on the day of passing of a Legend in the entertainment industry, the late, Michael Jackson. For many of us he was an icon for allowing your craft to reflect your pain and energy. He was a leader in a push for innovation and creativity. He was a pioneer in the fight for expression and originality, and has influenced so many people globally. His music resonates thoughts and memories throughout all of my life, starting in my family’s first apartment in Parkdale, to listening to Dangerous in my mother’s living room, doing a performance with 3 other dancers in my high school fashion show to Smooth Criminal, and later, trying to comprehend the mentality of a man under so much pressure and fire for almost his entire life. It is unfortunate, but in his passing, the incredible work he was able to achieve will be further celebrated and recognized to the extent that it always deserved to be.


- Bryan 'be.' Espiritu