P. Calavera

Artist: P. Calavera, Bopes, Waiting, Art in Olympia Storefronts

Statement:

While most of P. Calavara’s works are clustered around the overlapping themes of mortality, human nature, and the shared experience of wit and jest, this particular piece is just, like, a bunch of Bopes waiting, probably for a bus or something. See that one over there? That one was based on you. Ooh! Check out that guy down the street— the artist totally copied that guy to make that one Bope over there. See what I mean? This bunch of Bopes is you. This bunch of Bopes is all of us. And the bus they’re waiting for? It represents lunch. Or maybe death or something. I can’t remember. It’s definitely important and worth considering, though, you can be sure of that.

Bio:

In spite of what you may or may not have heard, the artist known as P. Calavara is definitely NOT a pair of highly trained raccoons masquerading as avant garde artists living in Olympia under assumed names, conspiring to raid your garbage cans while you’re preoccupied with reading this biography.