WILLFUL SIMPLICITY

(acrylic/collage on wood 12" x 16")

Another painting inspired by Goya's "Los Caprichios," specifically "El Sueno de Razon Produce Monstros"...The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Indeed!!! The text repeated on the upper left/right reads "embrace willfully stupid simplicity" as the participants shield themselves from the light of reason...sounds like recent political discourse. Check out Goya's "Disasters of War" and think about our current dystopian world...and then try to get a good night sleep?

EXPECTATION, ANXIETY, PURCHASE

(acrylic/collage on wood 9" x 12")

Corporation subtlely influence the choices that we make EVERY day. This painting, showing a bucolic setting, hints at the heart of the so-called American Dream: a never-ending series of "choices" thrust upon us with no end in sight...and NO JOY as well!...David Lynch got it right! We've got the freedom to chase the carrot till our demographic is no longer a viable financial proposition for corporations to invest in.