oil and blood (teorema 18)

2010
ink on Arches CP paper
78 x 44.5 inches / 198 x 113 cm

Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette 2010; Cara and Cabezas Contemporary, Kansas City, 2011; Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, 2012.

The theorem- angel gives me the night kiss. This is the beginning of the series. Each drawing suggests its own name. A night kiss, coming after ‘baby please don’t go’ after s/he is really gone, after my baby done gone. Then: a freak drawing (untitled). Then: night kiss.  Then, oil and blood. Over in the Gulf, oil skeins tattoo the epidermis of the ocean. Hey, but. What if I do a line, see what you say. I keep getting visions. The limp dead birds like poor cocks of dead men left over after the killers left too drunk to hide the evidence. But I want to hear a story. The drawing might be just about to tell a bloody Sunday, about a month of Sundays of blood.