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I didn't know this when I started this painting, but it turns out that that's a Himalayan Salt Lamp over our bed. Himalayan salt is used to make sole (pronounced solay), which is water that has been fully saturated with a natural salt. But here's the kicker: the name comes from the Latin "Sol," the sun.... Then on researching Himalayan salt, I find out it comes from End-Permian salt beds which formed at the bottom of the primal Tethys Sea, dried up some 250 million years ago by a scorching Sol, and then over the next few hundred million years was shoved up into the Himalayas as India crashed into Asia. The End-Permian apocalypse was caused mostly by CO2 released by enormous eruptions of basalt by volcanoes in Russia, creating a poisonous hothouse that acidified the oceans and killed almost all life on Earth, just as humans are now doing by burning fossils - actually releasing CO2 at a faster rate than those Pangean volcanoes did. And the high water temperatures in the Permian ocean (higher than 100 degrees F.) would have generated hypercanes, "continent-sized hurricanes-from-hell, with 500-mile-per-hour winds ...,"* one of which had already turned up on the dark side of the burning and flooded Anthropocene Earth which had strangely materialized in my painting.... Go figure. *That quote is from the book the old dude in the painting is reading, "The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions" by Peter Brannen.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in
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"I was a loner as a kid, an only child, the kind that grow up to be terrorists, bank robbers or artists. I wasn't interested in terror but tried robbery, stole a watch in the third grade but got caught and took up art. They haven't caught me at that yet." (Warren Criswell) --- “I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do to you.” (James Baldwin) --- Warren Criswell was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1936 and has lived in Arkansas with his wife Janet since their bus broke down there in 1978. Primarily a self-taught painter, Criswell is also a printmaker, sculptor and animator. He has had 41 solo exhibitions in the United States and one in Taiwan. His work has been included in 77 group exhibitions in New York, Atlanta, Washington DC, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Germany and Taiwan, and is represented in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: The Arkansas Arts Center; the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina; The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR; the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Capital Arts Center, Taipei, China; the University of Central Arkansas; Hendrix College; the Center for Arts & Science of SE Arkansas; and the Central Arkansas Library System, as well as in private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe and Asia. --- In 2021 he won the Arksnsas Governor's Award for Individual artist. In 1996 he was awarded a fellowship grant for painting and works on paper by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2003 an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for painting and drawing by the Arkansas Arts Council. Warren Criswell is currently represented by M2 Gallery in Little Rock and Saatchi Art.
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