Burlap

Oil and newspaper on burlap. Painted sometime in 2005.

2004-2006

Elephant and Boon

America

Peoplerplastic

Woman

The Wild Sheep Man

The Elephant Man

A Landscape

Baal (Holy Cow)

Baal (Bust)

Bacon?

Meat

The following post of paintings were made sometime between 2004 and 2006.

'Meat' and 'Bacon' were made while reading a series of articles on Francis Bacon. I was thinking about compositional tools Bacon had taken from Picasso. After realizing that he had 'taken' almost every design element from other painters, I decided to do the same.

'Baal (Bust)' and 'Baal (Holy Cow)' were made while taking a class on early world civilizations. I was particularly interested in Sumerian, Babylonian and early Jewish cultures.

'A Landscape' was made while thinking about middle America.

'The Elephant Man' and 'The Wild Sheep Man' were made as bookends for 'Baal (Holy Cow).' The compositions were appropriated from Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein. 'The Wild Sheep Man' comes from a Haruki Murakami story.

'Woman' and 'Peoplerplastic' were made while listening to De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate.

'America' was made after reading Allen Ginsberg's America poem.

'Elephant and Boon' was made as a bookend for another triptych.

Paintings!

Maera (Ja'mae)

House

Buildings

Stories (continued)

Stories

The images above are paintings created within the past two years or so. Many are incomplete and will likely remain that way.