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1 Jul 2020, 11:47
Oil painting for June! Cell phone photo uploaded late last night...I had so much fun with this prompt and didn't want to let it go. I feel like the fable of Bongo and Clyde has several thematic threads to explore - brains over brawn for sure, but also the extraordinary risks one might take for a better life. I'm interested in the vision and hope that are intrinsic to an act like this - Bongo's choice to dive right into the fire, with a plan. The broken vending machine was the first narrative element that came to me. I moved the setting into a dusty desert highway mostly because I wanted to paint that place, with all its sense of longing and expanse, and heat.