These prints merge two figures, one is Jean Paul Marat, the French revolutionary hero, a menacing figure propagandizing the bloodiest aspects of the revolution, and Mahākāla, the Hindu and Buddhist protector deity. Like a gargoyle, the face of Marat Mahākāla is meant aid in overcoming obstacles and to scare bad spirits and energy away from the place it protects.

A series of forty double sided silkscreen prints, comprised of one thousand drawings, and one thousand texts from typographic marks, to transcribed quotes and phrases.

This work was created during while working at Urban Glass in New York City where I began silkscreen printing portraits with glass enamel that was then melted into hand rolled glass sheets.

Drawing reflections on tearoom trade and a poem…
“I am a jockey with a sprained ass-hole I am the light mist
in which a face appears”
– “In Memory of My Feelings” by Frank O’Hara