“Atop it a great fig-tree rises, shaggy with leaves, beneath it awesome Charybdis gulps the dark water down.
Three times a day she vomits it up, three times she gulps it down, that terror! Don’t be there when the whirlpool swallows down – not even the earthquake god could save you from disaster.”

–Homer The Odyssey

As with all the calligraphic body of work, the background is done first, then the space for the foreground figure is “removed” with solvent, back to clear, and then repainted. The distinction of this painting is that the initial foreground shape was drawn by my finger on the blank PETG’s static field, which allowed the first mists of spray to fall on the surface in this shape. The black was subsequently added using the typical solvent technique. The absence of water droplet masking is another distinction.

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