Want to Get Away? Mars

2018 - 16x20” Acrylic and newspaper on canvas.

2018 - 16x20” Acrylic and newspaper on canvas.

During a news overload I found myself getting depressed, so I had a thought. What if I could leave? But the bad news was everywhere, not just in the USA. So, where else to go but Mars and the Moon? I wanted to experiment with different painting backgrounds, so I decided to make a newspaper collage with the only newspaper I could find – the last three days of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. I cut out all of the most depressing pieces I could find, from global warming and pollution to the Emmet Till murder, and the ever present Trump political news. And I thought I was depressed before I did this! I needed a few days to decompress after completing these pieces.

 
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