A friend of mine had gone through a terrible divorce, and I had found a series of bones hiking. I figured the bones were a good fit for the end of the relationship. On the male face's side of the painting, the words: "Until Death Do Us Part, I Will Always Love You" appear. On the female's: "Forgive me, even if I won't." This piece allowed me to express my relatively new disgust for marriage. If marriage doesn't exist, neither does divorce. It's important to note, my disgust with marriage is purely contemporary and American.
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In this piece I learned something: Don't give your art work to girlfriends for free. It's better to sell it. I had to take this back from her.
This painting sent me to the hospital. I was up all night and suffered an anxiety attack thinking of the end of my relationship with a girl I'd fallen miserably in love with. She was the first and the only as of now who I'd ever felt that way for. I used the piece itself as a way of trying to fit text into my composition. "Are you honest," "are you fare," and "I love you not," appear from Shakespeare's Hamlet. These lines are also used in "Hair on the Head of John the Baptist", a song by Saltillo, which I'd been listening to a lot at the time.
This was an experiment done with applying things to the canvas using only gesso.
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This was an exercise in painting the figure through self portrait. I used the study to attempt to express my idea that American Cinema Horrors': Saw, The Hill's Have Eyes, etc., have diluted the line between what is violently acceptable for witness or not.
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