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 were actually painted over older works. 

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.

In Radical Pair, visual elements from the 2016 works Hope, Fear, Life and Death from The Triumph of Romanticism are visible in this composition. 

The eye in the upper right corner of the work originally appeared in Antidote from 2008 which was based from Portrait of Princess Maria Vasilievna Kochubey by François Gérard from 1809.

The Magician in the center of the work appeared in the genomic work Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 2005, which was derived from the Magician card of the Waite-Rider tarot deck.

The lower part of the magician morphs into a diagram of the Saturn V rocket which originally appeared in the work Turning Point from 2008.

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