I call this painting Before the Fall because it's about the innocence of young children. They are playing happily on the floor, the little boy's stomach is exposed (beneath his superman shirt), and around them are scattered newspapers, representing to some degree the world they have no knowledge of as yet. The New Yorker on the table has an Art Spiegelman cover showing children toting guns to school--a comment on school shootings. The painting is based on a vacation photo of my son and my best friend's daughter when they were young. Oil, 36x30.
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