Lincoln RY Light The shiny material world dominates

The shiny material world dominates the painting—and her young life

and crimson wrap around the tipi

and ancestral wisdom

Painted onto the surface of the tipi is the image of a buffalo — a sacred symbol of strength

Lincoln RY Light The shiny material world dominatesI first painted a large scale portrait of Abraham Lincoln almost two decades agoand, if anything, that hyperrealist representation only amplified how iconic a face we see daily on our five dollar bills and pennies already is, and how disconnected we feel from him as a human being. The vertical lines that I added here to break up that familiar image, fragmenting Lincolns face and representing the sense of disconnection and the way hes being lost in the