Re-imagined

David Foster Wallace, After Bacon's Pope Innocent X, after Velasquez. Charcoal on paper, 42x60"

A recent act of re-vision I committed was my drawing of DFW above, inspired by two classic works below. Velasquez executed the painting below on the left around 1650. It is of Pope Innocent X. Later, Francis Bacon, a 20th century painter, copied this master-work in his own grotesque and evocative style, seen below to the right. I learned about both of these works/artists in college. I became and remain an admirer of both and now find myself situated in an artistic lineage of inheritance and synthesis. In creating this work, I pay tribute to Bacon and Velasquez and keep my memory of and enthusiasm for David Foster Wallace vivid.