“POKER”

8 x 10" original acrylic painting within an 8 x 10" frame. This painting I completed whilst living in a mental health recovery facility, it includes all of my fixations and main thoughts on my life at the time, all personified and playing a friendly game of poker together, where you could win everything or lose everything. Players include Jean Michel Basquiat - one of my favorite painters of all time, Death himself personified as the Grim Reaper, a form of the Christian God's protective Angel's (being a stereotypical symbol of light but also still relatively evil), a monkey - representing human nature, and myself - with the blindfold on, having no chance of even playing the game properly. Note the master sword from Zelda beside me, my favourite game at the time.