"a portrait of Dancing King" Painting

My work takes place in the imaginary proscenium of the Great American Desert, a place where past mythologies meet with present realities in unknown and often unacknowledged ways. It is a quest into this unknown - a modern day expedition to discover what previous settlers have done and how to recreate old mythologies for present and future settlers. The cowboys in my paintings are outsiders without any definite home, co-existing with the old and the new like the east and west bends of the Mississippi River.