GEORGE FERRANDI | Superhero, Sidekick, Gaggle of Ghosts
Chavish
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Character Analysis #1: Chavish
Dimensions variable. Mixed media installation. 2003
Snowbirds and Streetfights, Bower Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
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This installation analyzed the character of Chavish, the bodyguard / scorned lover to Super Silver Monkey. The text on the wall outlined what I know about this bird . . .
A. yellow
A1. sometimes
B. sexy southern rocker
B1. I thought you would be taller
C. dead, apparently
C1. drowned (see
x’s over eyes)
C2. biological warfare
D. ghost of failed rescue
D1. lived in building with Charlotte
D1a. used to date Guadalupe
D1a1. scorned love flooded house
D1b. was starting to fall for Sing
D1b1. lived above Charlotte
D1b2. would rather feel her
absence than nothing
D1c. successful physical rescue by
Super Silver Monkey (see E2)
D1d. sister to Isadora
D1d1. witnessed flood
D1d2. said nothing
D1d2a. holds the
leverage of complicity
over Guadalupe
D.2. birds go first
E. sidekick
E1. never clever enough to fully compensate
for his inherent shortcomings
E1a. not all ducks swim (see C1)
E2. some monkeys glow silver with charisma
E2a. super power #1. fly. fly. fly.
E2b. super power #2. feel power of:
E2b1. remorse
E2b2. guilt
E2b3. longing
E2b4. self doubt
F. potential assassin
F1. one gets tired of waiting
G. doleful
H. white
H1. sometimes
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