DIGITAL MARY
Oil on linen, 4x4'
Digital Mary is pregnant with the digital world and holds the heads of two muses while she she wonders about the influence of the birth.
Detail from DIGITAL MARY: (Urban Muse and the Royal Mother)
Digital Mary imagines the urban future of digitization.
A Royal Mom looks at her two children and thinks about their lives.
Detail from DIGITAL MARY: (Wild Muse and The Artist)
The wild rural Muse sleeps as the artist draws the model in front of him.
Detail from DIGITAL MARY: (Stampede, Rural Mom, AIDS victim, a marriage, and the artists parents)
A stampede of wild animals led by a rhinoceros, makes its way through the dust and is divided by an AIDS victim who holds a newborn. A young bride dances her last virgin dance.
A young mother tries to hasten her children out of the way of disturbances behind her but her daughter resists, wanting to stop and observe the action.
An elderly couple carry on as they always do in the afternoon, embroidering and reading the paper, seemingly unaware
of Digital Mary and everything around her.
Digital Mary is painted in negative color. Gaze for 15 seconds at the place where shadow meets the light between her breasts, look away onto a light middle gray surface and then stare again for some seconds--her image will reappear in flesh tones.