Benediction

Eve gallops into consciousness upon a crawling Adam (late for the costume ball!) as the shocked Spider Monkey God riases his four fingered hand in a priestly gesture of ('Benediction')' and a French Tickler Satan popsout of his mouth to offer a candied apple of forbidden knowledge! ('Guilala,' a truly ridiculous movie monster,) looms in mirror image copy-cat tourist glory out of the syrupy swamp of Japanese pop culture to take a snapshot of that grand moment when the ape brain loses its instinctual innocence and lunges headlong into the knowledge of good and evil.

Benediction is a continuation of acrylic paintings based on animation stills. The original animation was part of a sieries called 'Ultra Shorts' (owing to their extreme brevity) which were displayed online as animated .gifs

This painting further explores the use of gilding that began in 'Mistress, May I?', now featuring more impasto and different kinds of glitter in an effort to make work that can only be properly appreciated in person.