The works in Cannibal Fare revisited visual elements from my work over the last thirty years and recombined them in new ways.  Some of the works in the series, like Animal Air were actually painted over older works.  The process of using former images and older canvases is a literal cannibalization of my own work. 

The blending of images and faces at different scales and colors creates a visual rhythm that encourages the viewer to create their own narrative about the works meaning.  Since the majority of the visuals appear in earlier works, the shuffling of scale and context blend their original intention and open the possibility of infinite interpretation.

Animal Air was created by painting over one of the panels of Herbarum from the Secret Codes works from 2021.

Visual elements from the 2008 work Joyride are visible in this composition. 

Parts of the original Herbarum composition can still be seen along the bottom right edge.

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