I never feel compelled to explain my art. To translate or define or even dissect even a little bit of it because it's F@#%ING ART. It's not really up to me. I got my thing and you got yours... But the questions about this piece are kind of mind boggling to me and then I realize... That's a good thing!!! You got questions? Like what does it mean? Then good, let me help you. But you can't expect me or any artist to really do this very much... It defeats the purpose but for this piece, which I feel very strongly about, I have no problem explaining, so here goes...
If you were to read it and know nothing about it's context you can take it at face value... In a world of bad people (citizens that are dicks) be better than that. A jam of pearls per se, a rare, beautiful and expensive accoutrement. If you want to look deeper than that, you can, with my original reasoning as the artist... In the movie Singles, the band of one of the main characters was called, Citizen Dick, It had Matt Dillon on lead vocals, Jeff Ament on bass, Stone Gossard on lead guitar and Eddie Vedder on drums. They sucked. Those band members listed above, minus Matt Dillon, are essentially the real band, Pearl Jam. They fucking rock. And then you got the play on words, the double entendre and triple innuendos... In a world of (filled with) Citizen Dicks(bad people, bad band) be a Pearl Jam(Good people, great fucking band) That's my interpretaion and the reason for making this... I kind of live by the words and ideas behind the meaning of this painting... As for the "triple innuendos?" The band Pearl Jam are huge basketball fans, originally named "Mookie Blaylock" after an NBA players. So I painted this piece over a huge basketball rim. it's layers upon layers upon layers and THEN... This particular "style" of art was made famous by the artist Christopher Wool. Thus the title of this piece. "I'm No Christopher Wool" That's it.