Youth Devouring Apparel the Japanese Tsunami Relief fund

the Japanese Tsunami Relief fund

he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 20

As a result

so I turned to toys to keep me entertained

Youth Devouring Apparel the Japanese Tsunami Relief fund6 x 14 inches 2012 Oil on Linen Framed The subjects stand as compromised martyrs, moments frozen in time. Pacifists, they were once observers and are now the eternally observed. Stolid, cold marble with fixed emotion, they bear the changing seasons and cycles of time uncelebrated, unobtrusive but exposed. They are effigies from a lost age, relics of a classical system and now they stand as monuments to modern decay. These are our gods, our flawed