This is the
first painting I did using canvas as a support. It's a pretty straightforward play on the idea of
stars in the canton of the original flag. Using a toothpick dipped in various colors of paint, I
stippled hundreds of stars onto the blue, attempting to emulate the colors and patterns of stars in the Milky Way. I used a picture I found online to try to get the shape and approximate density of the stars correct.
The
basic idea was to ignore the notion of a country of 50 states and
instead focus on the reality of a country of millions of individual people.
Democracy, 2010, 36 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas
Detail
