Scrounging through some old slides and came
upon this diptych. Inspired by Rembrandt's Night Watch and various
Italian Piétas of the Renaissance, and measuring 14 by 8 feet in total
(oil and tar on canvas), this ambitious painting that I started
in my second year in art school (1992-93? (yikes!)) was never fully
realized and after around 15 or so years in storage was in such bad
condition (the tar had eventually ate and seeped through the canvas)
that I decided to unceremoniously destroy it by knifing the shit out of
it. That cathartic act of creating and destroying something became a
valuable lesson: don't hold onto something that will eventually eat away
at itself... & god dang if I ever decide to work that big or with
tar again.
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