RED LIPS DUBAI WTC lores

This piece is a culmination of pop and modern culture images overlayed by a single female figure.Through technology, we inhale so much information, sometimes at a level that it becomes subconscious. With this piece, there are hundreds of interlaced images of pop culture and how we see one thing that is made up of many smaller elements. The large, overlaying image, the vibrant red lips of this face becomes a focal point. The individual squares are hand placed, some are askew, but it is also the transfer from clean, digital beginnings that the unique quality of assembly and the texture that is created with the paper, glue and medium brush over the panel and the bold, expressive oil stick strokes to provide a finished composition. It becomes energized and emotional. There are images, letters, words and textures within the composition that will provide the viewer an almost endless level of discovery in the composition, images or ideas that were not seen originally. Today, this piece hangs in the Dubai World Trade Center. And of course, I always include a small, subtle portrait image of myself.