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 Canada Faire, 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.

Canada Faire was created by painting over the 2016 work Dissimilation (Black Star) from The Triumph of Romanticism series.

Visual elements from the Spectral Analysis (670-610 THz) from Apollo 2 are visible in this composition. 

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

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