Category: Tom’s Misfits

This is a piece in which I wanted to leave the narrative open and have the viewer actively involved in creating the story associated with it.

I created three different top pieces and three different arm pieces, so that the viewer can change them out and have different versions of the same piece.

I created the head, initially, without any top, so that the brain is exposed.  Then the viewer can add one of three of different tops to the head, a small balding forehead; a large balding forehead or a cowboy hat.

The arm can be changed so the subject is holding a pipe, a bottle or a handgun.

Self portrait

Here is a wall piece that I did of myself, when I was beardless, but with my crooked smile

 

This piece, was originally titled “The Salesman.” But I think “Living the dream” fits him better. With his unfocused stare and perma-grin plastered onto his face, it’s scary to imagine what sort of dream he his living…but he’s living it.