Illuminations in oil

Promised and delivered. The painting on the left is titled "Belong," the dimensions are 4' x 4' oil and wax on board. The thinking behind that title has a connection to the agency of decorative style in attaching people to objects. In other words, in the anthropology of art and embellishment, the way objects or people were/are stylistically embellished communicates information about the group that the object or person "belongs" to. That is an overly simplistic description, but I wrote a paper titled "Portable Cosmography: The Agency of Style in the Ancient Southwest." that I would be glad to email to anyone who desires a more scholarly explanation.

The second painting is titled "Juxtapose," it is 20' x 24' oil and wax on canvas. With both of these paintings, the title is embedded into the painting.