"Prometheus Stumbled", 20x16", mixed media on canvas

"Prometheus Stumbled"

The heat incites stupid things. It fuels frustrations causing people to react in extreme manner. It stresses patience and wears at the fabric of our good nature... or at least those of us who have a good nature. It boils our brains and causes us to seek out the closest pool, sprinkler, waterhose, horse trough, etc. In our sweaty, sticky laspe of comfort, we tend to let good sense, logic and rational thought melt away. Embroiled and lost in our own personal discomfort, we become careless.

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"Applecore", 10x12, oil on masonite

There goes the neighborhood.

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"Fruit Tart", 45x36", oil on canvas

Finding beauty in the ordinary, simple and mundane. Although, I normally wouldn't call something this appetizing "mundane" (I have one hell of a sweet tooth) it is stark and simple compared to today's luxury items. Not to mention, from a compositional standpoint, very symmetrical... save for the corner of the table. There was a time when this would have been exorbitantly luxurious. "Let them eat cake"...... In an ever growing materialistic society that evolves and promotes ad hoc at light speed, I find myself appreciating and gaining satisfaction from a slow study of the commonly overlooked.

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