Brief:
Kevin Tong for The Hatch - revealed via runsaverytightoperation.com
Sold Out. Artist website - tragicsunshine.com
Gallery1988 blog about the print: http://g1988.blogspot.com/2009/10/frame-8.htmlReverendMilo Review:
Kevin Tong's print of the Hatch grabbed tons of peoples attention and sold out in under 11 hours, back in a time when we losties were doing pretty good of keeping these prints under the radar. Kevin Tong getting released changed all that. Kevin Tong seems to be first and foremost a meticulous illustrator. He appears to get in with the fine hard pencils and plan the work up from the bottom. The detail is lunacy. I have a hand cramp just looking at his lines.
It took me a long time to get back to reviews of prints after this release, this print knocked me off my feet. This is a very complex image - complex in execution, color, detail, and theme.
As I am not an artist, or terribly well versed in the print art world, I am intimidated by even trying to discuss this print. For me it encapsulates a surreal moment, with pure surrealism. Deus Ex Machina, the episode title for the origin of this water cooler moment, is written beneath the island. Literally "God from the machine", but it is also a storytelling or plot "device"...one that typically brings unexpected, convenient, and unexplained resolution...the opposite of what the hatch did with the story arch in the episode this print depicts.
After pondering all that and having my eyes transfixed repeatedly by this print, I am left with the origin story of the phrase which alludes to the cranes and machinery used to bring men acting as gods onto the stage, that may not have been Mr. Tong's intent, but that is where this amazing print took me...I'm talking to you Radzinsky...Comments to ReverendMilo, the artist, or just the general universe...Go here: