watercolor and gouache on arches paper; 20×24″

“Countless meaningful art works from ancient cultures survive even if damaged. Destroying cultures through war, enslavement, prisoners of war, hostage-taking continue even now.”

ARTIST BIO: Cynthia Kukla thinks of painting now, feeling the perfect, hypnotic gestures of hand to brush, poetic and erotic. But, witness the weighty deliberations, Postmodernism’s fancy for captured images. Like a Butterfly anesthetized and pinned to cotton, dead but beautiful; Postmodernism, so dead but beautiful. We are fooled, fueled by this seduction, thus blinded, O Osiris.