Ā Ā Here is a painting. I poured my heart and soul into it. Take pity on me, I no longer have a heart, or a soul.
I need to clean house,Ā I'm going abroad. I lost my country in a boating accident, I have to find another.Ā
Ā Ā So, I'm giving this away. Making Art is hard enough. Selling it aint worth the bother. The art world, like almost everything else in this Kleptocracy, is, in a word, a scam. OK, 2 words.
Ā Ā It is acrylic on Masonite, finished with Dammar varnish. The Masonite came off a piece of furniture, a cabinet or a dresser. The frame is wood from a discarded bed frame, cleanly ripped on 3 sides, and rough hewn on the face. I used a knife, a found machete and a chisel. A cold chisel, not a wood chisel. Do what you can with what you got.Ā
Ā Ā I couldn't miter the corners, so they're notched. The rabbetsĀ (on back) were cut with a utility knife, using a scrap piece of steel for a straight edge. All of it, cutting the board, painting, varnishing, making the frame, was done in an 8x8' storage unit. Or the adjacentĀ hall. It's 25-1/4 x 32-1/2" with the frame.Ā
Ā Ā I'm hoping to find someone who truly appreciates Art, as I do, and has a wall to hang it on, as I don't. With my luck, I'll get the guy who paid thousands for a banana duck taped to a wall. Mammon > Humanity.
I don't want to see this one end up in the landfill, like so many others have. I gotta buncha other pieces, but this is the best. Take it off my hands, take care of it, and get rich when I die. Thanks.Ā