I'm Not Like Them (2011) by Jermaine Rogers

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Come As You Are ("I'm not like them, but I can pretend") / Kurt Cobain · Nirvana / Kurt Cobain, 1991

Cross-legged on bare ground, blonde hair hanging over the face, the pale blue cardigan and the torn jeans. A gold crown sits on the floor in front of him, untouched.

“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.

Chronicles of 72

Research from the archive. Quoted material is reproduced verbatim, and every voice is labelled.

From the release

Jermaine was one of the artists commissioned for the "NIRVANA: Taking Punk to The Masses" exhibit by the Experience Music Project (with approval from the Cobain estate.) This print is entitled, 'I'm Not Like Them...' and measures approx. 24x18 inches. The artist's edition is printed on cream colored stock (the regular edition, on sale at the EMP Museum, is printed on white stock.)

About the imagery, Jermaine says: 'Sometimes it's hard to remember that everyone we know is basically the result of whatever happened to them when they were a child. Everyone around you is a child... deformed, in a way, by age and experience. Little Kurt was a boy who would be king... a king with a rusty crown. It might've been better if he'd been a plumber... or an accountant. Oh, the selfish part of us won't even tolerate that idea... but it might've been better. A life is worth something. It's worth something.'

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