THIS IS THE ABOUT PAGE

First, the business side of the About page. Just the facts:

Acid Invader is an anagram for David Carnie.

David Carnie is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles with his wife, Tania, and two dachshunds, Pencil and Waffle. Hello. (If you need to know more, you can visit the slightly inaccurate Wikipedia page that someone created nearly 20 years ago here.)

All of the collage work presented is constructed from paper and assembled with knife and glue (with only the bare minimum of electronic adjustments made in Adobe Lightroom—color, contrast, cropping, etc.).

All words by Dave Carnie. (Note: some of the texts are edited for space and/or are selections from larger stories.)

If you have any questions or comments about the work featured on the site, or if you’re interested in commissioning a piece, or hiring an illustrator for your creative needs, please use the Contact page to reach me directly. Rates are available upon request. Thank you.

Okay, now that that’s out of the way, we can talk about fun stuff like wieners:


ABOUT MY WIENERS

The collages began because of dachshunds. My parents realized pretty early on that Tania and I’s first dachshund, Beckett, was the closest they were going to get to a grandchild so they showered him, and us, with any and all dachshund related trinkets, tchotchkes, and nonsense they could find. For Christmas 2011, for instance, we received a 2012 Daily Dachshund Desk Calendar as a gift: every day featured a different dachshund portrait. It was adorable.

The calendar went on our kitchen counter and every morning, usually while making coffee, I would get out a Sharpie and vandalize the daily doxie image with a strategically placed mustache, or a rude caption, or a stupid thought bubble, or something. At the end of 2012 I returned the collection of 365 defaced dachshund dates to my parents as a Christmas present with a note that read, “Here’s your fucking calendar back.”

My mother and father were so delighted by my vandalism of the 2012 calendar that I decided to do the whole thing over again and acquired a copy of the 2013 Dachshund Daily Desk Calendar. It wasn’t until almost three months into 2013 that I actually cut something out and glued it to the calendar. The February 26 dachshund had a big ole tongue, so I cut out a little “tab of acid” and stuck it in his mouth. The caption read: “Doxes. Doses.”

That’s when it hit me: “Oh. Collage.” I’ve been doing collages ever since.

Aside from being a gift for my parents, the daily collages became an exercise in creativity. At the time, I had a soul-crushing job that was rendering me mentally bankrupt, so the collages provided a creative outlet each day that kept me from going completely berserker. I gave myself an assignment: make a piece of art every day for one year. And on February 26, 2014, I completed the task: one year of dachshund collages.

I’ve continued making collages on a nearly daily basis ever since—sometimes with doxies, sometimes without. Many of the more recent examples are shown here in the galleries, but you can see the entire history of the collection, including the very early daily calendar collages, on my Instagram feed: @acidinvader.

And, again, please use the Contact page to reach me directly. Thanks.

—Dave Carnie