Amulet #75
image: 3” diameter, watch: 3 ¾” x 3 ¼” x ¼”
2019
metal pocket watch, acrylic painting
This painting portrays an Iago and betrayer I knew long ago, set within a Shakespearean context. I’ve written a poem about this work, titled “Farrago.” “Fairyland had unnerved— / Memories were well-served. // Once in time, I had bent / To his nihilist blows— / This wretched malcontent / And his sad farragoes. // His smiles drank others’ tears— / Bottom, with donkey ears.”