(How Many More) Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice (Fort Union Ranch, New Mexico 2017) 24" x 36" oil on canvas Portrait of the Artist Horseback (Fort Union Ranch, New Mexico 2017) digital photo THE SECOND WORLD COMING Mimicking the antique aesthetic of junk stores, where one might meet an elder with stories from the primitive world, fastened tight to the seat of Western cinema, whichever year from the 50’s to yesterday’s Tarrantino, Cowboy hats, and fringe, tattoos, fashion of the Campo, Idols and Icons, imperfect, bigger than reality but always insisting Autobiography, part of local legend, these subjects are painted and unpainted with a sense of careful balance, bordering on shameful selectivity, within the sublime settings they are born in, sometimes left as nothing more than scars, distant memories rather to be forgotten, rendering the message unintelligible, open to revisionist historians, casual appreciators, venom
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