36 x 25.5

 

Acrylic, watercolor, and drybrush on canvas, stretched over a handmade hardwood frame

 

            I have a rule about painting.  If I have an idea, I’ll let it sit for a few weeks. If I forget about it, or lose interest, I let it go.  Sometimes, however, I get an idea that I absolutely cannot stop bouncing around my head, for better or worse. 

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This canvas was born from one of those ideas.  John Carpenter’s “Big Trouble in Little China” is not everybody’s cup of tea, fine.  But I love it.  From its wild influences and disparate tones to the way it sends up the idea of American masculinity. . .it’s just way good, and I love it.  This canvas plays with the iconography of Lo Pan, Jack Burton, and that six-armed demon statue in the big battle room.  Also, there’s a watercolor overlay of the Pork Chop Express, because it’s equal parts awesome and ridiculous.​

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