"The Primordial Tomato Garden of Oblivion"
July 28, 2001, acrylic on canvas board
While I often like to represent the original primordial oblivion from which all existence sprang from as a pool of naked women drowning and swimming in an infinite ocean of blood, in this one I used a bunch of voluptuous, juicy-looking black women. They are there in all their raw, sexual lusciousness, their caramel, bulbous titties swinging as they look down upon the tiny white guys who stand there in their ignorance. The white guys are looking up to this skanky white chick whom they have chosen to worship and who has been heralded as the light which has peered out of the darkness in her magestic, naked glory and WiSDoM. I had recently watched Snoop Dogg's first porn movie, "Doggie Style" when I made this, and other personal factors tied in to my wanting to include him in this painting. Looking back on this image now I see that my choice to associate tomatoes with the eternal ocean of passion and blood from which we are all born was hinting to my future use of SALSA to represent this old and ancient idea once I became TaCO WeREwOLf. Other examples of portraying this point of human origin with severed women's body parts can easily be found in ancient religious texts such as the Sumerian creation myth where the female dragon, Tiamat, is butchered and from her guts springs all life.
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