1000 Faces
Just as in comic books each super hero is only a minimal alteration of the basic archetype; the hero in each painting shares the same fundamental structure, a generic character from a silver age comic book. The comic book vocabulary offers the perfect vehicle to use to depict the vast pantheon of mythological heroes; comics are the continuing translation of ancient mythology. The clunky manifestation of the hero with thick black outline colored with benday dots shows how little difference there is between heroes and calls to mind Joseph Campbell’s theory that important myths from around the world which have survived for thousands of years all share a fundamental structure, which Campbell called the monomyth.