Joseph Sinness

Apocalyptical Dolly

Apocalyptical Dolly
Apocalyptical Dolly

Apocalyptical Dolly (detail)
Apocalyptical Dolly (detail)


Statement

Colored Pencil on Paper, 20"x28"
Permanent collection, Tweed Art Museum, Duluth, MN
In this piece Dolly is a deity reaching out to an innocent (although the bunny grows into being a historically more perverse and sexually unflattering creature by theological norms). Dolly to me, in this world, is a mystic and a saint - typically weighted by her iconographic breasts . . . in the image she is released from her cartoonish form and heralded by thirteen swallows. In the tradition of Apocalyptical visual representations, she is an opening in the sky through which God can provide a vision or a message.
Prints of this piece are available at
http://www.soovac.org