MURALS ON PAPER

2022-2023

I was trying to work through reckoning with my hedonist nature and my guilt about being privileged and not doing enough to right the wrongs and inequities I continually run into. I found sixty inch wide roll paper and started painting with gouache for the first time. I struggled with the paint and with my thoughts. I planned on four murals, each about one of the four horsemen or women of the apocalypse. Instead I crammed feast and famine, water and the lack of it, migrants and hedonistic indulgence. the beauty and wasting of water, of haves and havenots, of splendid brunches. The work has moments but it wasn’t what I wanted.

PILEUP ON THE WAY TO PURGATORY 60HX156

I drew the horsemen as jockeys racing above a pileup of cars sinking in water that is flooding everywhere. Pilgrims peer at this scene from a cliff that has stopped their progress. Pestilence and death ride the four horses of the apocalypse. COVID is there and sick angels, Ukraine has begun, buildings explode. One goat guy looks for answers in another. In the background people stand waist deep water waiting. We all waited quietly as illness poured through every corner with danger and death all around

POLYNESIAN PARALYSIS 60X120

In the 1970’s my geneation burned out on activism, fled the mainland for polynesia. Intending to do good often we fell into a stupor we called Polynesian Paralysis. Here we are having left revolution behind.

IN THE GARDEN 60H X 120W Paralysis was not the only story. We also tended our gardens.

Three Minutes to Midnight 60Hx120W

Kali holds a watch. Ganesh’s time is almost up. He would like to escape, but that won’t happen. On the right a young woman listens to sea sounds in a shell. She is not yet worried about death. Above her float light and grace. A tiny surfer girl rides Kali’s tongue.