Artist : Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Title : Country Church
Medium : mixed media on linen
Dimensions : 76 x 122 cm 


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“My uncle had a farm in north Mississippi for a while, and on that farm before he had it, years back, lived a family of slaves. The tiny house they lived in was 5 foot by nothing yet still had remnants within which were rotting away deep in the pines. When I visited him I would always go to this abandoned house and gather things that I could reuse. The particular shirt that forms the body of the church in the painting was found in the wall. Their house became a church of sorts to my creativity. The graveyard around the church in the painting was fashioned after a church graveyard about 10 miles down the road from it.”