Reverse Painting on Lucite

I did this in 2005. Painted the skull first and then added some collage and paint. It's called "Ecstasy' and although an art critic, Jud Yalkut, at the Dayton City Paper thought it was a self portrait in his article about our Bones & Stones exhibit, it isn't. I can understand why he got that impression when you see our poster for the show.

Looking back though I wonder if he saw what I couldn't at the time. I thought I had made a painting about the risks associated with looking for joy in a pill called ecstasy. Now I look at it and see something else. A see a mind full of patterns/ colours, frenetic, full of life, and a sense of mortality. Long after I am gone I peek out. I am here. I existed, I had life, I smiled. See me, for I once walked the earth, smelled the air and tasted the sweet joys and sorrows of life.

"For a moment of night
we have a glimpse of ourselves
and our world islanded in a stream of
stars-pilgrims of mortality,
voyaging between the horizons
across the eternal seas of space and time"
Henry Beston

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