Self Portrait XIV

Self Portrait XIV: Confidence in Ugly Body Image, Digital Painting, 2008


Halloween lyrics special:

Shadows upon shadows passing
It is now 1831,
And as always I am absorbed with a delicate thought
It is how poetry has indefinite sensations
To which end,
music
is an essential
Since the comprehension of sweet sound
is our most indefinite conception
Music when combined with a pleasurable idea
is poetry
Music without the idea
is simply
music
Without music
or an intriguing idea
Color,
becomes pallor
Man,
becomes carcass
Home,
becomes catacomb
And the dead,
are but for a moment,
motionless.

From Alan Parson's Project's Fall of the House of Usher, composed of the writings of Edgar Allen Poe

MOSSSSSSHHHH

Here's a laughable take on colorful take on a mosh pit from 1994 as a mural for some music store:

To me it just looks like they're all just dancing in place but my friend Grey informs me that the women on the far left is clearly throwing her windmill back and the guy to the right of her is definitely two-stepping.

And here are two much more admirable, accurate, and good versions from Dan Witz:

Mosh Pit 2001. Oil on Canvas. 48x46.

Big Mosh Pit 2007. Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas. 46x70.