I found a book a while back that described Caravaggio’s technique. So, today, I started a new painting following his method and decided that I would share the process. You can see how it’s developing in my Twitter stream (there’s also another painting in there that I’m working on concurrently).

If you get a chance, take a peek.

“Fuck keeping hope alive. Who are we kidding? Our lives are that fragile lampshade, and our fate is that black mold, and that’s it. I want to sleep, not take pictures or talk to FEMA or put on a happy strong face.

Enough. Sleep. Ignore. Delay. Distract. I’m done being the lampshade,

I want to be the black mold.”

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“She said she was no Bible thumper, but that God was so powerful he just flicked his hand and her family was gone. And when she said this she made a flicking gesture, like dusting off her arm. She said God’s so powerful, and tears started. So powerful, she said softly. She asked, Do you believe? No, do you believe? // We’re all one really bad day from oblivion.”

Clayton Cubitt

“This is why I make photographs. To preserve what life must destroy. It’s a melancholy art. Embalming loved memories.”

o Detail of Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment”. It shows St. Bartholomew holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin. The face of the skin is recognizable as Michelangelo’s.

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