Commentary

This work is built on top of an older unresolved painting about an encounter with what i refer to as Mr. Death, a personfied encounter with morbidity and mortality/immortality. So in essence this painting deals with scars, trauma, and the regeneration of life in the wake of such traumas. Also swimming up from the abyss are many totemic archetypes, serpent, plant, insect, and much more. Lysergic diethylamide influenced, cultivated in part by a cathartic spirit dance, a breaking through from darkness and void...