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Image by Annie Spratt

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This series examines what happens when modern figures are rendered in the traditions and likeness of the historical origins that inspire us still today. The viewer is invited to weigh modern identity against historic permanence.

Climbing Up the Shoulders

selected blueprints from history, recreated first through photography, and rendered in charcoal & oil

Pietà

Oil on linen
18x24"

A master study after Michelangelo's sculpture.

Both characters are portrayed by the same model; symbolic of our own rituals for severing parts of our past to move forward.

La Grande Odalisque

Oil on linen
18x24"

A master study after Ingres's original. Art history is full of intentional and symbolic distortions and exaggerations of the human figure, often requiring a single portrait to contain multiple composites to create the final image. As with Ingres' original, the spine and limbs have a surreal and unnatural stretch in rebellion to the distortion of beauty standards.

Portrait of a Woman with a Joint

Munch's original (1895) is a self-portrait with a cigarette. At the time and place, cigarettes were considered the degeneration of society, while pipes and cigars were for the societal elite. In his self-portrait, he painted himself as if caught in the moment with a cigarette in hand, yet he stands confident and careless about it. His painting style represents his rebellion against the perfectionism of the neoclassical trends in art society that were one in the same with the bourgeoisie and classism.

The stigmas and embedded prejudices that Munch originally emphasized with a cigarette are analogous today in cannabis.

La Grande Odalisque

Oil on linen
18x24"

A master study after Ingres's original. Art history is full of intentional and symbolic distortions and exaggerations of the human figure, often requiring a single portrait to contain multiple composites to create the final image. As with Ingres' original, the spine and limbs have a surreal and unnatural stretch in rebellion to the distortion of beauty standards.

Portrait of a Woman with a Joint

Munch's original (1895) is a self-portrait with a cigarette. At the time and place, cigarettes were considered the degeneration of society, while pipes and cigars were for the societal elite. In his self-portrait, he painted himself as if caught in the moment with a cigarette in hand, yet he stands confident and careless about it. His painting style represents his rebellion against the perfectionism of the neoclassical trends in art society that were one in the same with the bourgeoisie and classism.

The stigmas and embedded prejudices that Munch originally emphasized with a cigarette are analogous today in cannabis.

La Grande Odalisque

Oil on linen
18x24"

A master study after Ingres's original. Art history is full of intentional and symbolic distortions and exaggerations of the human figure, often requiring a single portrait to contain multiple composites to create the final image. As with Ingres' original, the spine and limbs have a surreal and unnatural stretch in rebellion to the distortion of beauty standards.

Portrait of a Woman with a Joint

Munch's original (1895) is a self-portrait with a cigarette. At the time and place, cigarettes were considered the degeneration of society, while pipes and cigars were for the societal elite. In his self-portrait, he painted himself as if caught in the moment with a cigarette in hand, yet he stands confident and careless about it. His painting style represents his rebellion against the perfectionism of the neoclassical trends in art society that were one in the same with the bourgeoisie and classism.

The stigmas and embedded prejudices that Munch originally emphasized with a cigarette are analogous today in cannabis.

La Grande Odalisque

Oil on linen
18x24"

A master study after Ingres's original. Art history is full of intentional and symbolic distortions and exaggerations of the human figure, often requiring a single portrait to contain multiple composites to create the final image. As with Ingres' original, the spine and limbs have a surreal and unnatural stretch in rebellion to the distortion of beauty standards.

Portrait of a Woman with a Joint

Munch's original (1895) is a self-portrait with a cigarette. At the time and place, cigarettes were considered the degeneration of society, while pipes and cigars were for the societal elite. In his self-portrait, he painted himself as if caught in the moment with a cigarette in hand, yet he stands confident and careless about it. His painting style represents his rebellion against the perfectionism of the neoclassical trends in art society that were one in the same with the bourgeoisie and classism.

The stigmas and embedded prejudices that Munch originally emphasized with a cigarette are analogous today in cannabis.

La Grande Odalisque

Oil on linen
18x24"

A master study after Ingres's original. Art history is full of intentional and symbolic distortions and exaggerations of the human figure, often requiring a single portrait to contain multiple composites to create the final image. As with Ingres' original, the spine and limbs have a surreal and unnatural stretch in rebellion to the distortion of beauty standards.

Portrait of a Woman with a Joint

Munch's original (1895) is a self-portrait with a cigarette. At the time and place, cigarettes were considered the degeneration of society, while pipes and cigars were for the societal elite. In his self-portrait, he painted himself as if caught in the moment with a cigarette in hand, yet he stands confident and careless about it. His painting style represents his rebellion against the perfectionism of the neoclassical trends in art society that were one in the same with the bourgeoisie and classism.

The stigmas and embedded prejudices that Munch originally emphasized with a cigarette are analogous today in cannabis.

La Grande Odalisque

Oil on linen
18x24"

A master study after Ingres's original. Art history is full of intentional and symbolic distortions and exaggerations of the human figure, often requiring a single portrait to contain multiple composites to create the final image. As with Ingres' original, the spine and limbs have a surreal and unnatural stretch in rebellion to the distortion of beauty standards.

Portrait of a Woman with a Joint

Munch's original (1895) is a self-portrait with a cigarette. At the time and place, cigarettes were considered the degeneration of society, while pipes and cigars were for the societal elite. In his self-portrait, he painted himself as if caught in the moment with a cigarette in hand, yet he stands confident and careless about it. His painting style represents his rebellion against the perfectionism of the neoclassical trends in art society that were one in the same with the bourgeoisie and classism.

The stigmas and embedded prejudices that Munch originally emphasized with a cigarette are analogous today in cannabis.

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