GREEN-EYED
JEALOUSY

Thank you for all the feedback on the Psychomachia sneak previews. I appreciate your patience on seeing the full images.

Here’s another cropped
piece of the puzzle
…Envy, the Dwarf!

I’ve been working on Psychomachia show for 1 1/2 years now, and we have booked the opening at Perihelion Arts on March 31st of 2011. It is a series of 14 pieces from myself and Arizona artist Jerry Portelli.

I now have all 14
of the images completed.

Although I still have to finish the reveals. This work reinterprets the Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Holy Virtues in a series of 14 diptychs, one from me and one from artist Jerry Portelli. The aesthetic theme is the sideshow freak from the circus and fairs of yesteryear–nature’s artwork, if you will.

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LESSONS LEARNED

One of the hardest lessons I ever learned was that it was okay if the work isn’t genius EVERY TIME.  The first image of the Psychomachia series that I tackled was Gluttony represented by The World’s Heaviest Woman.  I was excited…I worked hard on the set pieces and props.  I loved the resulting image for about 2 months…

NOW…it has been cut and replaced by a completely different concept, but it shines as an example of “it doesn’t always have to be perfect.”  Jerry Portelli, my Psychomachia partner, won’t let me show any of the work until the show opens, but since this pieces was rejected (at least by me), we’ll call it my lesson in humility…

…here it is, Gluttony Rejected.