Paintings

The following images are from a series of paintings of pills I am currently working on. This is the first set.

We place so much faith in medicine. These tiny little dots full of things we don't know or understand. In some ways, they are like magic. These images are devotional images, fetishes. Or they elevate a small thing that we take for granted; we all have aspirin or some pain reliever in our homes; many take vitamins; some need daily medication. These paintings capture what we swallow without thinking and freeze them, enlarge them, creating a more intimate relationship.
 

Evening Dose
acrylic on board
5"x7" unframed -- $175.00		 Morning Dose
acrylic on board
5"x7" unframed -- $175.00
 

This is a pharmaceutical
known as Depakote.

 Pills
acrylic on board
5"x7" unframed -- $175.00
Sleepwalk
watercolor, acrylic, oil, textured oil, book
pages, gold leaf, soil on canvas
14"x18" unframed -- $300.00

"Oh, go through walls; if you must, walk on the ledges of roofs, of oceans; cover yourself with light; use menace, use prayer...my sleepers will flee toward another America." 
--Jean Genet
SOLD
 
Door For a Dead Child
acrylic on board
8"x10" unframed -- $200.00

    I had a dream roughly a year ago in which I saw a bright red door floating in limbo and, as in many dreams where we simply "know" something to be true, I "knew" that this door was especially for a child who had recently died. This child was to use the door to get to the next realm or stage of evolution after this life.
          This piece is somehow inspired not only by this dream but by the bizarre falling death of Eric Clapton's son and another dream in which I watched a little girl who was dying of an incurable disease draw pictures for me. This door seems to belong to all of them. I hope they find it and use it. (Frame shown NFS.)
Saul Is Colorblind But It's Okay  I
Oil on mat board
16"x13" matted and framed -- $200.00		 Saul Is Colorblind But It's Okay  II
Acrylic on mat board
16"x13" matted and framed--$200.00
The two paintings above were inspired by a next door neighbor from my childhood. Although he was colorblind, Saul liked to paint. One day his wife told my mother that he had painted a portrait of their dog but that he had made the dog pink. My mother seemed to think that this was something to be pitied but I remember thinking that it was his painting and he could make his dog any color he wanted. Consequently, the sense of these pieces is that of a typical Middle-American paint-by-number picture done by one who is colorblind.
 
 

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