“The Fisherman”
Acrylic on Canvas. 16” x 32”. 2024
The Fisherman is a portrait painting depicting a disheveled fisherman with his brain exposed through his hat wearing a thousand yard stare. The countless unknowable things that he must have seen have granted him boundless wisdom, represented by the missing eye which is a reference to Odin who gave one of his eyes for wisdom, but also have jaded him and taken the spark from his eyes. It poses the question: is boundless knowledge and wisdom a boon or an information hazard?