Chastity: The Mermaid

Posted on April 21, 2015April 21, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

SECOND CHANCES

The image of Chastity: The Mermaid from my Psychomachia series has resonated with viewers over & over. It was the first piece of that series to sell, and prints have been a best-sellers. This series reinterprets the Seven Deadly Sins & the Seven Holy Virtues as sideshow “freaks” from the circuses & fairs of yesteryear–nature’s artwork, if you will. (continues below)

Chastity the Mermaid by RL Gibson — Chastity: The Mermaid by Artist R.L. Gibson, 24″ x 24″ Xerography on Canvas

I sought to honor the sideshow freak as the masque form of the very best and very worst of humanity, regardless of individual morality. This work is wrapped in a celebration of the possibilities of digital media & rejects the pervasive sort of embarrassment of digital alteration in photography. The use of square canvases in Psychomachia is meant to echo the pixel of which all digital images are comprised.

The collector that purchased this piece has been kind enough over the years to loan it back to me so that it could be shown several more times after the purchase. Due to an odd twist of fate, this piece is available for purchase again.

If you are interested in owning
Chastity: The Mermaid,
please contact me via Facebook or email.

The pieces is currently located in Gatlinburg, TN; however, I am happy to ship the work as well.

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MERMAID on the Move…

Posted on July 9, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

SWIM AWAY!

One of my little friends has found a new home! That’s right, one of the 4″ x 4″ monoprints of Chastity: The Mermaid from the Psychomachia series has found a new home.

If you would like have a miniature print of Chastity (or other sins/virtues) of your very own, check out The Haggus Society FB Store, then click on Haggus Society Member Wares to find more of my little friends!

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On the Road, Again!

Posted on September 8, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

COLD WATER
for the
Mermaid

I am pleased and proud to have a piece from the Psychomachia series, Chastity: The Mermaid, showing in the ID – The Object of Self exhibit at the Darkroom Gallery in Vermont.

There is some humor, I suppose, in sending one of my more exposed self-portraits to a locale where it will be snowing before long. And, funny enough, this piece has legs. It has been from Phoenix, AZ to Los Angeles, CA then to Austin, TX…and now to Vermont. Ahhh, if time only permitted me to be her traveling companion. Maybe next time!

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