A revolver rests recognizable, while a single black barrel sits below, marking the memory or remnants of something before.
The title comes from the song by The Doors, “5 to 1, baby, 1 in 5…”, but here, the 5 to 1 refers to the 6 bullets that the gun can hold. Who are the 5 for, and who gets the 1?
The ground goes from bone at the top to blood at the bottom, and the guns sit right on the line where one becomes the other. Bad odds plainly stated.
How these are made. Latex lays the ground. The mark goes down in oil stick, then gets worked over with an old brush still carrying dried oil and chunks of whatever it was used for last, dragging the image apart and pulling pieces of it back off. Then a blow torch. The oil stick burns and dries and leaves a barnacled crust behind. What is left is a mark that looks like it has been out in the weather for a hundred years.
18 × 24 in · Latex, oil stick and coffee on watercolor paper · 2026
A revolver rests recognizable, while a single black barrel sits below, marking the memory or remnants of something before.
The title comes from the song by The Doors, “5 to 1, baby, 1 in 5…”, but here, the 5 to 1 refers to the 6 bullets that the gun can hold. Who are the 5 for, and who gets the 1?
The ground goes from bone at the top to blood at the bottom, and the guns sit right on the line where one becomes the other. Bad odds plainly stated.
How these are made. Latex lays the ground. The mark goes down in oil stick, then gets worked over with an old brush still carrying dried oil and chunks of whatever it was used for last, dragging the image apart and pulling pieces of it back off. Then a blow torch. The oil stick burns and dries and leaves a barnacled crust behind. What is left is a mark that looks like it has been out in the weather for a hundred years.
18 × 24 in · Latex, oil stick and coffee on watercolor paper · 2026
