The Future Is Now (still life with pain killers)

Oil Stick On Paper

h: 6 x w: 4.5 in

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When I was a child my mother was in a car accident which ultimately resulted in her being disabled for life. She spends every moment of every day in unimaginable pain. I have spent most of my life on one psychiatric drug or another and over the past 3 years I have injured my left knee, my lower back and now, about a month ago, my right knee. These injuries are not the bi-product of strenuous or risky activity. They all happened just as I was going about my daily routine. Call it the Walton Effect, human beings are just not designed to be as big as I am. The result of all this a seemingly probable future in which I spend my entire life on a cocktail of psychiatric and pain management medications. I have seen first hand how chronic health problems weigh on people and I have seen how little compassion most people without chronic health have for those who do. This is why I have been painting a series of still lives of pills that I take on a daily basis just to function. Just as the tradition of Gravitas painting sought to address how we take for granted the life force that food and drink provides us I seek to add a third element to the discussion because for me, and millions of other people, pills are as necessary as bread and water are to everyone else.

Murder & Pestle

Oil Stick on Paper

h: 4.5 x w: 6 in

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This is part of an ongoing series of small oil stick drawings on paper where I hope to reconcile the meeting of the visceral & the sublime. It is my intention to demonstrate that beauty isn't alays pretty and that enlightenment can make for dirty work.

Ecstacy

Oil Stick On Paper

h: 6 x w: 4.5 in

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This is part of an ongoing series of small oil stick drawings on paper where I hope to reconcile the meeting of the visceral & the sublime. It is my intention to demonstrate that beauty isn't alays pretty and that enlightenment can make for dirty work.

Elegy for Saint John (The Fallen)

Acrylic On Paper

h: 22 x w: 30 in

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This is the first in what will be a series of pieces wherein I hope to explore some of the more visceral elements in my work through the lens of a more serene and transcendent composition.

Spider's Sword (Still Life with Zoloft and Ritalin)

Acrylic On Canvas

h: 11 x w: 14 in

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When I was a child my mother was in a car accident which ultimately resulted in her being disabled for life. She spends every moment of every day in unimaginable pain. I have spent most of my life on one psychiatric drug or another and over the past 3 years I have injured my left knee, my lower back and now, about a month ago, my right knee. These injuries are not the bi-product of strenuous or risky activity. They all happened just as I was going about my daily routine. Call it the Walton Effect, human beings are just not designed to be as big as I am. The result of all this a seemingly probable future in which I spend my entire life on a cocktail of psychiatric and pain management medications. I have seen first hand how chronic health problems weigh on people and I have seen how little compassion most people without chronic health have for those who do. This is why I have been painting a series of still lives of pills that I take on a daily basis just to function. Just as the tradition of Gravitas painting sought to address how we take for granted the life force that food and drink provides us I seek to add a third element to the discussion because for me, and millions of other people, pills are as necessary as bread and water are to everyone else.

The Last of The Highlites

That's All For Now.

a Few More Highlites

More Highlites from yesterdays Drawing Marathon.