"Blue Moon Nightmares"
October 31, 2001 acrylic on canvas board
This painting is actually similar in theme to "Zero Will In Christ's Blood" because it involves a man surrounded by violent, blood-dripping symbolic tortures as he stands amidst them wide-eyed and feeling desperate. The forms of the dead women are merely symbols for the volatile confusion and instability the man feels in the midst of his obsessions. But rather than resign to them and kill himself as portrayed in "Zero Will In Christ's Blood", the man decides to FACE his mental tortures and demons. The knife and gun he holds represents his will to transform, through creative imagination, the oppressive iconography of his current personal mythology and turn it into something positive, like I have been trying to do with my "tacofication" process. I call it "Blue Moon Nightmares" in retrospect because I realize that this was an early portent concerning my interest in werewolfery and the idea of bringing out the "artistic werewolf" inside of me and beginning to represent the negative forces in my life with positive symbology in an effort to make them something wholly other and closer to the sun than the moon.
The painting is done in all blue because I had just finished reading a book on Picasso's "Blue Period" and was like, "Hey, let me try that!"
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