It's my birthday! But strangely that's not why I'm thinking about cake...⠀ ⠀ Threads are weaving together towards a new body of work that spans the thematic gamut from religion to the French Revolution to the history of capitalism to societal collapse to... you guessed it: cake--though not so much the sweet birthday confection as a sort of bread & circuses let-them-eat-cake symbol of lavish twenty-first century excess. ⠀ ⠀ Will it bake into finished work or am I merely stirring my creative batter? Time will tell but in the meantime, images of another thread of this work are coalescing through a few early photographic studies this week. ⠀ ⠀ Along with cake, figurines of enlightenment-era European aristocrats have recently sunk their teeth into my soul. Picking them off thrift-store shelves, one can watch the history of twentieth century international capitalism unfold in the different countries inked on their bottoms--Japan, Taiwan, China. (I'd no doubt I'd have to hit an antique store for France, England and America.) ⠀ ⠀ Something is swirling up from all this. I feel like I know where its going but, as I already said, only time will tell. ⠀ ⠀ (PS--check out the dog under the arm of the figurine in the first picture. At least... I think it's a dog.)⠀ ⠀ * * *⠀ ⠀ Whew! Now that the art's out of my system, happy new year to you all and thanks for following me. My health continues to improve--I probably sound like a broken record with that but I honestly had a long ways to come back from! ⠀ ⠀ Still a ways to go, but a tipping point has been reached. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7H6KmuhQQq/?igshid=g39hqmi0ly5q