Just Doing My Job, 18” x 24”, oil on board. 2013. (Available as a print.)
Storytelling is always a challenge to get right. Put too much info into the piece and you’ve put the meaning on with a frontloader. Always better to let your audience put some of the pieces together and maybe fill some of it in with their imagination.
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Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance, 15” x 18”, oil on gessoed papoer. 2010.
The machines/ aliens that come to Earth in the story really have nothing to do with the newborn but I liked the idea of conflating parts of the story by encasing the baby in the weird machine, cyborg-like, screaming in its caul. Some of the most fun I’ve ever had painting was smearing the pigment and oil over the face…
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