To The Future Comrade Gus they put their lives on

they put their lives on the line without fear

So I painted this thinking of the roads that the others had to walk on in order to survive

Also the big Oak tree trunk

It was never what the surface revealed

"This piece was started with a graphite drawing on a chalk painted panel

To The Future Comrade Gus they put their lives onacrylic and photo collage on birch panel 24 X 24 in. 2016 "This is a picture from the weekly farmers market at Hoch Farm in Killaloe Ont. I asked my daughter Gus, a talented actor, to hop up on the old tractor and appear as if she is driving it somewhere. I love how the lens fractured the appearance of the wheels. If that was a real tractor it would clearly just be driving in circles in a completely unstable trajectory. Maybe something like all of us