“The sun addresses the flowers”, 16” x 20”, Acrylic and airbrush on canvas 11x14 glicee prints available on my store! The start of a pilgrim badge series and my first real acrylic painting on canvas where I use paintbrushes 🖌️ 😝 Added the many iterations of thinking I’m finished and then painting over it Made in the Middle Ages across Europe, pilgrim badges are Catholic badges to be worn on a hat or lapel. Typically made of lead alloy, they were sold as souvenirs at sites of pilgrimage and bear imagery relating to the saint venerated there. They were massively popular and cheap to produce. In 1520, the church at Regensbury sold over 120,000 badges to medieval pilgrims. I’ve been exploring consumer objects in my art and how they represent a society at a certain time. Whether medieval religious souvenirs or post war household trinkets, exploring old relics in todays time shows a through line of human expression— and informs the creation of my own modern relics, in an era of hyper-consumption and consumer driven faiths. . . . . . . #acrylicpainting #pilgrimbadge #medievalpainting #pilgrimbadgepainting #nycpainting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryacrylicpainting
