CIA Report

With this damning CIA report, I thought I would go through the archive and find some images of the Bush admin.

I did a couple of images for an imagined Tarot card deck that had W.Bush as the fool walking off the edge into Iraq. You have Gitmo as the Tower card, incorrectly I made Rumsfeld the devil card and Cheney the Hermit, based on the way he was always hidden from view like the Emperor in Star Wars.

A New Talking Head

This was a lot of fun to make, this was my very own Count when I was about 6 and I am always happy to use it as a puppet with the kids ( not myself alone with the lights off or anything un-American like), as it is still around and comes out pretty often in the basement play time ( with the kids, not myself alone... you get the idea)

Shout out to Heidy Marsol for her blog, Hye's Musing on popular culture, movies etc
please have a look: 

http://hyemusings.blogspot.ca/

Upon Seeing My Painting Again

We went to a friend's house for a great dinner a few weeks back, this piece is theirs now, from my 2011 Loop gallery show, Life Lessons.  Looking at these characters again, I was struck how the central character reminded me of one of my mom's strange Moroccan wives tales. 

The story is about, on the surface, about a woman who can't stay home, even naked because she is a busy body. But on another level, I think the story was about female sexual curiosity. 

Amazing how you paint something, and with time another layer of meaning comes through, even to the artist. 

The Artist Project

My work will be in the artist project in a few weeks and I am working on some really different stuff for me, the deadline is very inspirational!

This is a piece before its complete