Inversion Kit

We live in a world preoccupied with energy, its consumption, sustainability and related geo-political strife. For some time I have explored these anxieties while developing a raw, direct style of image I call "post industrial cave painting." I rely on a sgrafitto based technique where a thick layer of tar is covered in primer then scratched into producing a kind of etched drawing. Later I work the drawing with oil colors. Inversion Kit is a culmination of ideas - personal memes and visual themes - connected to energy and environmental anxieties. In "Inversion Kit" to be rendered in tar and thick oil paint, my gas truck theme collides with my reoccurring ambiguous masses of industrial pipes. Is it a truck that makes its own fuel? A mobile factory? Perhaps it is a still distributing liquid escape to the citizens of a subterranean future world.

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