The "Ruler" is holding a "staff" indicating leadership. Protected by bars with mixed feelings inside.
Hand-painted gelatin silver print, 18X18" matted in 4" museum white mat, framed with 2" matte black wood frame to final size 23"X23"
Created using techique artist has become known for: photographing objects/scenarios in black and white through Pennsylvania glass block, photo grams adding in darkroom and finally hand-painted in oils.
A 20th century style of painting in which nonrepresentational lines, colors, shapes, and forms replace accurate visual depiction of objects, landscape, and figures. The subjects often stylized, blurred, repeated or broken down into basic forms so that it becomes unrecognizable. Intangible subjects such as thoughts, emotions, and time are often expressed in abstract art form.