Distorted Reality 2 Painting

This work is part of series of 5 pieces called "Distorted Reality." They portray my sensibilities about what the world went through (still) going through during the pandemic in 2020 and beyond. In the US we also were experiencing one of the most hellish political campaigns in history. This piece depicts 2 charcoal sketched images of people whose faces are broken, literally. My hope is that I'm commemorating the suffering of many people in the world who were not as fortunate as I to be able to work from home in a cloistered country environment. I collaged the sketches onto a prepared encaustic plywood surface and covered with hot wax. I used roofing tar, scraped on with a trowel to suggest the darkness and doom that some people have experienced in losing loved ones, jobs, social connections, businesses. Encaustic is an ancient painting technique, first known about by historians back as far as the 5th C. BC. Sailors decorated and preserved ships' hulls with pigmented wax. Its popularity has waxed and waned over centuries with a resurgence in the 20th C. Now there are International Encaustic Conferences that draw 100s of painters from all over the world.I have attended the one in Provincetown, MA (US) for 7 years, studying with the best painters who use hot wax.

Painting:Ink on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 36 H x 1 D in

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