IN EVERY DREAM HOME A HEARTACHE

Before the Fourth Day

Oil, acrylic, colored pencil and charcoal on canvas - 36”x48” - 2018

Before the Fourth Day - detail

Oil, acrylic, colored pencil and charcoal on canvas - 36”x48” - 2018

During the Fourth Day

Acrylic, oil and charcoal on canvas - 36”x48” - 2019

During the Fourth Day - detail

Acrylic, oil and charcoal on canvas - 36”x48” - 2019

After the Fourth Day

Oil, acrylic, and charcoal on canvas - 35”x48” - 2018

After the Fourth Day - detail

Oil, acrylic, and charcoal on canvas - 35”x48” - 2018

In this series, I paired Dianne Ladd’s character, Marietta, in the film Wild at Heart with three primary places I have lived. I chose stills from a particular scene where Marietta is overthrown with emotion, smearing red lipstick all over herself in her hysteria, to act as reoccurring imagery in the three paintings. The vignettes bind the places with an overarching emotion and concurrently illustrate the advancement of time. Not one of these places is exempt from this emotion. The interior psychological space is pushed to the forefront almost violently. Contrarily, the shapes of the vignettes suggest that these are things the viewer isn't intended to see.