Today i received my copy of Tome!! I guess I was in the first shipped group. It is an amazingly huge book.
If you had been in your prime during the Renaissance, do you think your subject matters would be comparably the same? Is your work a response to the here and now, or do you feel you are channeling something greater?
Well, I am fairly sure I would have been burned alive for the subjects I work with in the Renaissance, so yeah I think it would have been very different.
As to if I am channeling something greater, the simple answer is no. But I paint from the need to manifest the internality of my own psyche. To place in the external world my own personal internal architecture, iconography, tropes and loci, connecting them together and seeing them in ways that my psyche does not naturally do outside of dreams, to the point that resolution was a forgone conclusion.
22x17 oil on panel. Cover painting for 30 Days of Night #5 ( IDW ) http://menton3.bigcartel.com/product/30-days-of-night-cover
