"Still Life With Ego Eating Bacteria"
"Still Life with Ego-Eating Bacteria"
48" x 48" (122 x 122 cm)
Oil on wood panel
The idea for “Still Life with Ego-Eating Bacteria” came to me when I saw images of someone infected with necrotizing fasciitis, which is a gruesome flesh eating bacteria. I wondered, what if there were a bacteria that when it infected people instead of becoming sick they became more loving, kind and compassionate? It would eat away their ego. However, rather than portraying the concept of bacteria in a clinical manner, as is done in biological illustration, I chose instead to use whimsical forms
overlaid by a color filed composition. The piece also shows a hint 19th century Post Impressionists painters Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard in the way they flatten the spatial depth of an interior scene and used bright colors. In order to enhance the painterly effect, I added Cold Waxed Medium into the paint, which is a combination of beeswax and Galkyd, to create it's thick textural quality.
48" x 48" (122 x 122 cm)
Oil on wood panel
The idea for “Still Life with Ego-Eating Bacteria” came to me when I saw images of someone infected with necrotizing fasciitis, which is a gruesome flesh eating bacteria. I wondered, what if there were a bacteria that when it infected people instead of becoming sick they became more loving, kind and compassionate? It would eat away their ego. However, rather than portraying the concept of bacteria in a clinical manner, as is done in biological illustration, I chose instead to use whimsical forms
overlaid by a color filed composition. The piece also shows a hint 19th century Post Impressionists painters Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard in the way they flatten the spatial depth of an interior scene and used bright colors. In order to enhance the painterly effect, I added Cold Waxed Medium into the paint, which is a combination of beeswax and Galkyd, to create it's thick textural quality.