After watching Gone with the Wind at an impressionable age, I became obsessed with the flexibility of Clark Gable’s eyebrows. I endeavored for many months afterwards to develop the muscles necessary to produce similar effects with my own eyebrows. I now bear the mark of my success on my 42-year-old-face: a surprising fountain of wrinkles originating from my left eyebrow and shooting upward toward my hairline that seem to have materialized overnight. At night, brushing my teeth before the mirror, I stare intently at the wrinkles and try to produce the facial expressions that created them. And then I naturally think about age, and about death, and about Osama bin Laden’s face, and what, exactly, the Navy Seals did to it that makes photographs of it unfit for public consumption.
-From my new post on the death of bin Laden and various other individuals.
Pièce de Résistance:
The final installment in my series of paintings inspired by the 2011 revolution in Egypt. This painting is based on a photo of a couple that got married during the protests in Tahrir Square (my painting Honeymoon is based on a photo of a couple who came to the square right after getting married). This painting is much larger than the others in the series, which are all 6” x 6”.
Acrylic on wooden panel, 12” x 18”
See the full series here.
The complete series is now available as a series of ten postcards at my etsy shop. To visit the shop, click here.
