View at Picasa "Benediction", Acrylic on Canvas, 3' x 3' (91.5 x 91.5 cm), 2011

“Benediction”,  Acrylic on Canvas, 3′ x 3′ (91.5 x 91.5 cm), 2011

Eve gallops into consciousness upon a crawling Adam (late for the costume ball!) as the shocked Spider Monkey God raises his four fingered hand in a priestly gesture of “Benediction” and a French Tickler Satan pops out of his mouth to offer a candied apple of forbidden knowledge! “Guilala”, (a truly ridiculous  movie monster) looms in mirror image copy-cat tourist glory out of the syrupy swamp of Japanese pop culture to take a snapshot of that grand moment when the ape brain loses its instinctual innocence and lunges headlong into the knowledge of good and evil.

“Benediction” continues my acrylic painting series based on animation stills.  The original animation was part of the series of animations I called “Ultra Shorts” (owing to their extreme brevity) which were displayed online as animated .gifs.

This painting further explores the use of gilding that began in, “Mistress, May I?”, and now I am adding more impasto and different kinds of glitter in an effort to make work that can only be properly appreciated in person.