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Thomas Brodhead – American, born 1968 – Tarnation –2024 – oil on canvas – 30" x 24" x 1.5" (76.2cm x 60.96cm x 3.81cm)

What lustful chthonic figures swirl above a wire-frame girl who weeps before her eternal resting place, a pool-table lawn that seems to nurse a fever with a cinnamon stick? Does a masked Paimon ride a purple serpent to circumscribe her afterlife, or is it an anti-Gabriel sounding a sickly trumpet to herald her demise? Hope is not lost, for an ax-wielding archangel approaches from the East, promising to drive away her tormentors with brute force. Endlessly entertaining for those fearful of the afterlife, this work would make a thought-provoking addition to a guest bedroom or vomitorium.

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