AND THEIR OFFERINGS
“And Their Offerings” is a six panel, three part painting series of diptychs focusing on three subjects and their belongings. Cyé, Matt, and Maddie were asked what objects they would bring with them to the afterlife as offerings to cross into a different realm, what objects they would want immortalized as a representation of their beliefs, personalities, and identities. Often, a person’s objects can provide insight into what they hold closest - “And Their Offerings” tells these stories with portraiture and still life juxtaposed side by side.
The inspiration for this work stemmed from a past project of mine in 2017, a zine (short visual-based book) called “Personals”. People submitting work to the zine were asked to write a Craigslist-type personal about themselves juxtaposed with a photograph of items that could be used to describe them (sans portraiture), and those two components made up the “personal”.
While “Personals” worked well with the anonymity provided in a zine, I wanted to dive a bit deeper and show people with their objects. “And Their Offerings” branches out to an idea from ancient Egypt and similar cultures where a person would be buried or painted with all of their dearest belongings.
All pieces are acrylic paint and gloss varnish on 18x24 inch (45x70 centimeter) canvas.
