ME on Mars -oil painting on canvas
July 17, 2012 Leave a comment
I created this oil painting while living on Mars, another time, another person. Mars the angry red planet takes some getting used too. It exacts a price. Takes a toll. Oil paint drys faster there, even the whites. Not much to drink expect salt the tears. I can only take so much gasoline. After a while it corrodes the guts and makes a man hollow. Oil Paintings talk to me. Dreams are more authentic than existence. I sleep and sleep. The tombs, under the surface, filled with a sinister hostile force. It isn’t like on the blue planet. Here life’s in the vapors; nothing’s tangible, everythings a metaphor. And the solitude’s endless. I make friends with almost anything. I have long talks with my paintings. They keep me company for hours, days, months, years. I was at a lost when I ran out of paint, oil painting.
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