A portrait of the Beowulf monster Grendel as he is written in the 1971 novel “Grendel.” Title of the piece is lifted from a line in the book. Composition is directly depicted from cover portrait on paperback version of the novel by Emil Antonucci. On rough-hewn heart pine wall stud salvaged in New Orleans. Original…
Category: Art
‘Ah, Sunflower’
App. 2’x3′ Inspired by Sermon for the Sun. Salvaged wood art featuring sunflower and the Sun gazing at each other in bliss, like the parent and child. To the sunflower and many of us, the Sun is the one true god.
‘vanquished villain’
An action-narrative piece on triumphing over any sort of obstacle, but this one depicts a protagonist using a paintbrush (art) to triumph over a sword wielding villain (complacency, doubt, insecurity, rejection). The positioning of the heroine’s feet on the hill portray a better position for triumph over the back-peddling antagonist. The star indicates that since…
‘romy kaye on the 15th day’
‘romy kaye on the 15th day’ App. 26″ x 10″ I made this piece in honor of my wife’s birthday. It depicts her, in the fullness of her life, when her body, in its descent, crosses paths with her increasing wisdom. It is at this moment when the Moon and Sun are in equal placement…
‘Oh, Samsara’
Salvaged wood art featuring subject crying out “Oh, Samsara” a variation of the older “Ah, Samsara” an acceptance of the general condition of life. The balding, pale subject, still struggling with the noble truths, decries his condition of suffering rather than accepting it.
‘We Die Only Once…’
App. 10″x7″ Piece commenting on the long arc of life, shortening the distance between the perished and the living. We are all dying, some faster than others but the speration grows smaller with each passing day. Could this be what organized religions speak of as they write of reuniting in afterlives? The catching up of…