Blood Money - Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Painting

This symbolic painting is of a huge PJC with coins, and is an original oil on stretched canvas. The piece has been exhibited in various museum and university exhibitions through the years, and has provoked much discussion. Painting has the potential to reveal the extraordinary within the mundane and overlooked. Through the use of metaphor, I often incorporate various social and political issues through diverse still life forms that are connected with both our consumer-driven culture and natural environment. Quirky associations, involving the machine, brand identity, food, monetary currency and nature, may serve as icons of consumerism, invoke hunger, or question the duality of nature and the machine. I’m drawn to the transformative qualities of these objects. A single object may speak of spiritual stillness and timelessness, or engage the viewer in a very different dialogue when combined with other elements. Painting that merges modern art discoveries with a classical aesthetic, often pushes me toward subjects that blur the boundaries between the familiar and the unconventional.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:30 W x 24 H x 1.5 D in

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