Artist : Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Title : Planting Teeth
Medium : oil on linen
Dimensions : 36 x 28 cm  


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“For years I’ve had ideas where figures or forms are draped in long pieces of cloth that cover their whole bodies leaving only the face visible. I assume offering some form of protection. It came to me one day to do that with a human skull. As I worked unconsciously the teeth began to fall out so I thought we could plant them in to the earth. I started this idea as an etching instead of a painting. I own a small press which I dabble in from time to time, usually in the summer when its warm out because my etching chemicals are on a back porch housed in a 1960s green oven.”