Prayer for New Orleans

12" x 12" collage, oil stick, acrylic paint on canvas I needed to create a piece for the Square Foot Show at Art Gotham and all I could think about was New Orleans. I collected some images of New Orleans street people and collaged them on a prepared canvas. Each night I prayed and soaked the whole thing in water like I imagined all the artwork in New Orleans to be soaking. Each day I dryed it out and worked on it. An article appeared in the New York times about how search parties were marking cryptic symbols on the doors of houses they had searched. An x with the left section denoting the search party code, the top the date, the right section how many structural faults, and the bottom the number of dead inside. When I added the orange marks to my painting I knew the piece was finished
$1,000 $675

2005-09-25 17:33:46 - 0 comments. Categories: [mixed media]  [small]  

Stephen Beveridge
New York
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