This painting was made from a song: Green Grass by Tom Waits.

I posted it below, so if you have a minute please listen, and zoom in/squint at the smaller portions, because they all represent a few strands of lyric. if you get lost they are all written in white on the bottom.

This song; and many others from this alum hold a very heavy narretive aspect for me. the tone is pregnant with imagry- after a lot of procrastination i decided i should try and show the world where this beautiful song has taken me.

In my opinion, i believe this song is based from the perspective of a dead man- talking to the wife that survived him. immediately one would find this melancholy, but i still think of this as a wonderfully nurturing love song. i think it conveys how one can love and live with another’s memory in a healthy romantic way. You can still be with somebody who is gone: and that i believe is absolutely beautiful. 

I really didn’t mean for the main character to turn into myself, that was in no way my original intention…