Them
Completed in 2007
5" x 7"
Outside dimensions when framed: 7.25" x 9.25"
Acrylic on Belgian linen panel with barn-board frame
The words read: Forgive them. Forgive yourself.
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(Detailed scans. The words were engraved in the surface with a dental tool. They read: "Forgive them. Forgive yourself.")
(This is a digital photo. The scans above are more accurate.)
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I think this piece speaks for itself. I do not have much to add other than to say this one haunts me personally. It is a beautiful elegant little painting with strong content couched in soft hues. This piece packs a surprising wallop in person. How it was created..... I used palette knives, brushes, and a dental tool to pull this painting together. Them was painted on a gorgeous panel of Belgian linen bonded with traditional rabbit-skin glue to a ¼” thick piece of masonite. The linen was primed with top-grade, old school gesso. It is the perfect surface for detailed painting. The texture of linen is so much finer than canvas. (I should note that I buy these panels already prepared in this way. I did not glue the linen myself.) The sides of the panel are unfinished. This painting will arrive already framed in a gorgeous hand-made barn-board frame. I picked a few of these frames up years ago at an art air and I have always treasured them. This frame is handcrafted by an artisan woodworker out of weathered boards collected from demolished barns in Southern Minnesota. I created this painting with this frame in mind. There are likely a good many ghosts haunting those old family farms, don't you think?
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Forgive them.
Forgive yourself.
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ORIGINAL ARTWORK
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