JUSTICE, scratched into a black field, with red coming up through the letters where the torch got to it.
The title finishes the line and the painting does not. And justice for all. Out here it was whatever the man with the badge decided it was that day, which is the part the pledge leaves out.
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
JUSTICE, scratched into a black field, with red coming up through the letters where the torch got to it.
The title finishes the line and the painting does not. And justice for all. Out here it was whatever the man with the badge decided it was that day, which is the part the pledge leaves out.
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
