page 100 The Down Beats. (collage, ink and acrylic)
" No obsession can justify its existence except by perpetual and repeated self-affirmation." -Simone de Beauvoir
page 101 The poetics of invisibility. (collage, ink and acrylic) " Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you're never quite on the beat. Sometimes you're ahead and sometimes behind. Instead of the swift and imperceptible flowing of time, you are aware of its nodes, those points where time stands still or from which it leaps ahead. And you slip into the breaks and look around."
I started this painting of Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton Sunday, July 11th. This is my second painting of Condoleezza and my first of Hillary.As of now I'm working on the under painting which tends to take me a while with oil paint. I'm mostly focused on temperature and tonal values at this stage. It just so happens that I fell into a red, white and blue color scheme. The first Condoleezza Rice portrait is below.
In Conde We Trust. (acrylic and collage on board) 2005.
Artist, Robbie Conal told me the collage was unnecessary. Robbie Conal was wrong. If you read the text (I encourage you to do so) then you see how very necessary it is. We often skim over or over look the truth. Our leaders rely on our mental laziness to achieve many of their corrupt goals. Wake up and read between the lines.
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