Constellation 1
Acrylic chalk paint on stitched canvas
2025
Size varies from 11"x11" to 13"x13"

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These are inspired by the 5 Romance languages that were recorded as #55Greetings & sent into space on the #VoyagerGoldenRecord: Portuguese, Romanian, French, Spanish & Italian. Here, my visual translation is nearly erased, except for the outline, as if the meaning didn't quite survive the journey.

SONG 1: Booth Killed Lincoln
acrylic on wood panel, based on a 19th-century folk ballad, as sung by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
24”x42”
2018

SONG 2: God Moves on the Water
acrylic on wood panel, based on a blues song by Blind Willie Johnson
24”x30”
2018

SONG 3: Great Dust Storm
acrylic on wood panel, based on a folk ballad by Woody Guthrie
36”x42”
2018

SONG 4: Ruination Day
acrylic on wood panel, based on a song by Gillian Welch
24”x18”
2018

⚡ Shout out to @tsanetwork Philly for hosting the first exhibition of this work back in 2019, to @besadmusic for their incredible performance in the gallery, and to @inliquid for including the first 3 songs in their current exhibit at Park Towne Place.

🎉 And hbd to this kid, who was 3 in the picture and turns 9 tomorrow, who had the good fortune to be born the day AFTER Ruination Day.

It is mine! Called a hellebore or a Lenten rose, one of the first plants to bloom at the end of winter