Lincoln RY Light Each face tells a story

Each face tells a story of resilience

Rendered with expressive brushwork and textured layers

very comfortable in her 21st-century existence

and Native-inspired imagery to create a piece that feels both timeless and deeply meaningful

Only then did I realize that such a primitive approach doesn’t work

Lincoln RY Light Each face tells a storyI first painted a large scale portrait of Abraham Lincoln almost two decades agoand, if anything, that hyperrealist representation only amplified how iconic a face we see daily on our five dollar bills and pennies already is, and how disconnected we feel from him as a human being. The vertical lines that I added here to break up that familiar image, fragmenting Lincolns face and representing the sense of disconnection and the way hes being lost in the