Jun 25
1886
14" by 18" acrylic on canvas board
#my art#traditional art#acrylic painting#electricity religion#statue of liberty#1880s#war of the currents#kind of#powerlines#utility pole#lineworker#orion#trying to depict him as both a folk hero and a religious figure#he's kind of like if Joe Magarac was the son of God#electric god#alternating current#his eyes are based off of the negative space formed by a three phase alternating current phase diagram#in his canon he builds much of the power grid and invents the distribution transformer#I will explain his death and resurrection in future paintings#divine machinery#folk hero#this painting is kind of old I just never got around to posting it#I know the quality sucks but I sincerely cannot be bothered to take a better photo
