Art Metropole

#07575

Try To "Live the Story" As You Read It

Artist

Daryl Vocat

Price

$175.00

Date

2005

Publisher

self published

Format

Multiples

Details

Screenprint On Stonehenge

Size

40.5 × 28 cm

Largely derived from found and manipulated drawings from old Boy Scout manuals, the work explores a world where young boys create rituals, form bonds and explore dubious notions of morality. Rather than being simply victims of neglect, Vocat’s boys assert outsider identities, investigate power dynamics, and lay claim to a culture of their own making. This work reveals a secret world behind the good intentions of the popular world-wide Boy Scout movement. Vocat’s manipulation of Boy Scout imagery is part homage to and part critique of the original source, exposing in the process the private world of young boys, tagging along as they fumble between expectation and desire.