This is a female Neandertal skull. The original working idea for this painting was "Sisters Crancy, Lucy, Barbie; Eve Left Town", and I had the cranberries as a bow over the teardrop hole. It was snarky and fun and pushed some boundaries. However, as I began to paint, this skull from the deep past became an individual, with a very puzzling if not conflicting connection, but still, she must have been somebody. Did she speak? Did she have children? Did she love? Did she mourn? There is a number tattooed on her cheek bone which I did not include. It seemed to me instead she needed an acknowledgement of her existence, her presence, her fate; it seemed to me she deserved a crown.
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