Contemplate the form and shape of language. Consider our visual and aural languages and the relationships between them. Literature and images are constantly cross-referencing and building up upon one another, we must communication reflections using one of these languages at one point or another. Therefore the crux of this series is not what is being seen or read, but what is being thought and said.
Salvator Mundi: I Think I am Christ, takes Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi as the basis for the structure of the image. Both a depiction of Christ and me, this is a self-portrait that exploits the constructed and therefore indeterminable appearance of the religious icon.
The painting takes literal language as a paint to create forms, the piling up of words creates a mesh and a texture, the collective appearances of the words create form. In this image the words literally correspond with the object being depicted.
