Cannibal # 20 Contemporary Watercolor Painting

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Portrait of a Cannibal. Watercolor and Appliqué on paper, One of a series of Indigenous Peoples of the World sharing … Read more Portrait of a Cannibal. Watercolor and Appliqué on paper, One of a series of Indigenous Peoples of the World sharing the world with us. Unlike corporations, they don't eat their children.



Heart of Solitude
Eat the body, drink the blood. Whether symbolic or actual, Humankind have numerous belief systems centered around
Acts of purification, transcendence, enlightenment. these are the rites of The cannibal. Some are Tribes, Some are corporations, some are governments, but unlike corporations, They don’t eat their young.

This series of watercolors depict portraits of indigenous peoples still active all over the earth in places invisible to our modern eye but nevertheless actively participating in the modern world.

And whom amongst us can say that their beliefs are any more vulgar and inhumane than our own social mores. We all have a cannibal in our midst who may devour us or others, leaving us in solitude.

We are alone like the cannibal trying to discover our place in the world , seeking enlightenment, seeking redemption, escaping the stigma of death. See less