BIG DADDY, HOSPITAL WALLPAPER, AND DOCTOR BAG

Originally inspired by the Big Daddy character played by Burl Ives in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,  Big Daddy is about the father complex, specifically  when a father or any leader is overly endowed with power.  Jung said that the only way to be free from a complex is to live it out fully to its completion. I am painting it out to its end.  This is an inner dialogue series documenting Big Daddy’s reckoning with himself, projected onto the repeating figure of a silverback gorilla.  This series is shown in order of execution and is ongoing.