"Michael," Spray paint and oil paint on masonite, 3'x4,' 2017
This is a portrait of my Dad, Michael, that I made after he died.  It is from  photograph of him when he was young.  I wanted to portray that he was a smart man, and had many things going on in his mind.  I took the imagery around his face from a brief experimentation with printmaking that he went through when he was young.  In some of his prints, he had images of the ocean and sea creatures, castles and planets.  The bird is from another print that he did.  I put the images in the prints around his head, to represent his intellect full of dreams, activity and images.  It is also supposed to represent him on the astral plane.