Digital Self Portrait as Plissken after Caravaggio

Bob "Snake" Plissken is the anti-hero that escaped from the prison city of New York in the 80s, and later escaped from L.A. in the 90s after the earthquake that separated California from the rest of the United States and the prison state that ensued. Here, the artist has represented himself as the character Snake, painted in detail formed after Caravaggio's painting of "Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness." A creation from the 1600s which is housed currently in the Nelson-Atkins Collection in Kansas City, where the artist spent his childhood. Caravaggio, as we know, had no business painting Saints. Read more about the work: https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/1130/saint-john-the-...View all