How did you come up with “Negative Sheep”?

One late night in my studio I was smoking marijuana, lots of it, and I threw a sheepskin rug over two ottomans. It looked like a sheep with no head and two rear ends. I took the idea of a headless, two-tailed sheep and made the “Push me, Push Ewe”. It’s made of foam over a wooden armature covered in sheepskin with sculpted bronze legs. The sheep has secret silicone anatomy hidden under the tails.

While working on the sheep sculpture I began thinking about sheep mutations, I remembered seeing photos of a two-headed sheep. I decided to draw two-headed sheep to balance out the headless sheep sculpture. Those mutations led to using images from my home printer malfunctions as inspiration. Sometimes I will run out of a color and something interesting will happen, unusual color combinations and other distortions. I worked these oddities into my drawings and paintings. This brought me to digitally manipulating found images of sheep which led to the negative sheep.

John Geary, "Negative Sheep"

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