Giant-Slayer is a painting derived from the statue of David by Donatello. In Giant-Slayer, the figure of David has been transformed into a pictogram, whose torso and white head hover in the mists of a pyramidal composition. Emerging from the spacial blackness of David's figure is a wave-pattern that wraps around the head of the slain Goliath. The wave-pattern references the electromagnetic spectrum, whose multiple radiation frequencies include a small segment that's detectable to the naked eye as visible light-- which gives rise to our visual world of forms. Embedded within this radiation lasso, Goliath's head is painted with a relatively true likeness to his actual head in Donatello's renaissance masterpiece. Here the representational head serves a duel metaphor. On a material plane, it depicts a physical world, and the old, "institutional" guard; and-- in contrast to light-- recalls a climate of non-renewable energy modalities and their associated power structures and Geo-political frameworks. On a spiritual plane, the massive, illusionistic head embodies a world of Maya or illusion; as well as the psychological conditions that contribute to separation, conflict and chaos. Through the language of Giant-Slayer, the traditional story of David and Goliath is extended into the dawn of the 21st Century.
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