“Prairie Cyclops” 1992

August 8, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Mixed media, 18” x 10” x 8”. Artist’s collection. In Iowa I would occasionally visit someone’s farm buildings. They always gave me the creeps. Something sinister about all the things hidden in a hay loft. Ropes, chains, hooks, pitch forks lurking in the darkness. I always imagined a lynching ….. or being trampled by a […]

“Large Coffin/Cage” 1992

August 8, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Oil on canvas, 84” x 96”. Artist’s collection. The chicken coups were inspired by the famous photo wreckage of a bus in El Salvador The bus carrying a group of nuns returning from the city after shopping for food. They had all been raped and murdered. Later I got the idea of painting a cage […]

“Cage/Box II” 1998

August 3, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Oil on wood box, 18” x 24”. Unknown location. These painted boxes (I did between 5 & 10) were done on paintboxes discarded by my students at The Catholic University of America. The sizes varied a bit but were generally about 18 inches tall. Some are cut like a woodblock print and then painted. The […]