I made the coins in this painting a few days ago – when I put up the description of how I was able to cast them. And in the meantime I glued some odd things together onto this sheet of Arches paper.
So does this count as a “one day” painting? It probably doesn’t matter, but I worked on this from 11 am until 3 pm today and was able to complete it in that time.
There are many stains on this nation’s history and the current situation is hardly the first. Slavery which was allow to continue after the new country decided that we were all born with certain inalienable rights was certainly one of the earliest. Often we have had a difficult time reconciling our stated ideals with our realities.
This young woman stands naked among the gold and silver and the scattered tea. Through her face are red and white stripes of what will in time become her country. The playing card refers to the Stamp Act mentioned in the gazette below it, but it also plays on an old ethnic slur.
Speaking of stains (and these are literally tea stains where they aren’t paint) I cut open Tazo tea bags and used them in the painting. For all the pretentious copy on the box, Tazo tea is almost undrinkable and is good only for such applications as you see here, as far as I am concerned. And so it appears here in the only important role it will ever play.
Drink Twinings of London. Or Black Pearl by Lipton. They’ll do right by ye.
Painting is acrylic paint, cotton, 22K gold and black tea on paper.
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