Saturday, February 09, 2002

'The Resurrection would be a scary story if Christ had been Beheaded Rather Than Crucified!' Terrified Apostle says,"Run! It's the headless Jesus!" Jesus' head says "I died for your sins!" The book title the skeleton is reading is 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'

I painted over all of the landscape that used to be here, so this is really a rare original breen. I was thinking about Easter, and how the kids look for eggs hidden by a rabbit. Rabbits have been bouncing around in my brain since the porcupine man painting. Everything is warm and fuzzy and dedicated to the resurrection of our Saviour(who would be called at this point a zombie in other religions), a Saviour who was killed on a cross a few days earlier.

Jesus comes to life and haunts the apostles. A typical zombie scenario, minus the brain eating.

We are rather desensitized to crucifiction due to our familiarity with the story. How many of you have wondered to yourself how long you could last up there? At least if you weren't poked by a spear? How much did those thorns really hurt anyway? I bet I could do a week, as long as it rained once or twice so I could catch some water in my mouth.

Change the crucifiction to a beheading and the story takes on a gothic Sleepy Hollow kind of feel. Your realize that you have a dead man walking. Easter suddenly has a lot more in common with Halloween.

posted by Eddie 2/09/2002 02:12:16 PM

'Karl had efficient natural defenses against predators!'

This painting was scanned in two pieces, so try to ignore the line in the middle of the painting, it isn't really there - the scan makes it look kind of crappy. I left my digital camera in my wife's car which was being worked on, I could take another shot but I'm much too lazy right now - besides, you get the idea. My wife came home from the video store the other day with a couple of movies, one being The Anniversary Party with Jennifer Jason Leigh?. There is a particular scene in which the protagonist spouses have a vicious fight while looking for their escaped grey-hound. They seem to take turns being the porcupine and the dog with a muzzle full of quills. Next day I began porcupine face here. The rip-off phone numbers on the bottom are of some fancy-pants New York galleries and museums.

posted by Eddie 2/09/2002 01:34:57 PM