The Venus Nebula

2023 - $7000
62″ x 75″, mixed media and collage on canvas

This painting was started in 2019. Although I thought it was finished then, I revised it in 2023. It is now complete. What made it incomplete?  The “Nebula” around the center core was too expansive so I added, by collage, the seven “moons”. These flatten the surface and create more tension on the surface as well as bolstering the core. The definite female form in that core, the “Venus”, is echoed in the female torso cut out and added to the top center of the work. I love the gaseous nature, the Nebula, of the background playing off the Venus elements. Again, the almost drafted line is inversed here and acts like a portal into the painting. Careful examination will reveal two Xs, a Y, and a Z.  Two Xs for female hormones and one X doubles, along with the Y and the Z as cartesian markers of the boundaries of the picture.