E M Corpus at The Fall Art Competition at Walter Lee Avery Gallery

I’ll be participating in the Fall Art Competition at the Walter Lee Avery Gallery with two paintings, one being shown in public for the first time.

Paintings, photography, and sculpture by competition artists will be on display.

WHEN: Opening date and Artists’ Reception is scheduled for Friday, November 22, 2024
between 7 and 8:30 PM, with music and refreshments. We would love to see you there.

WHERE: The Walter Lee Avery Gallery at City of Seaside City Hall
440 Harcourt Avenue,
Seaside, California 93955.

Political Art: King Sisyphus In the Underworld

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a tyrant king who killed visitors as arbitrary demonstrations of his power, a violation of the sacred traditions of hospitality. Hades, god of the dead and king of the Underworld, condemned Sisyphus to roll a huge boulder endlessly up a steep hill in the Underworld. The boulder would always roll away from Sisyphus before he reached the top, consigning him to unending frustration at the futility of his efforts as a punishment for his crimes and hubris.

Apropos of the historic moment of the November 5, 2024, United States elections, I’m reposting this painting from 2019 of a miserable creature caught in his own private hell. In the way Percy Shelley’s poem Ozymandias has outlived the ancient monarch in its title, I hope that this painting of the myth of Sisyphus outlives the miserable creature I used as reference for it.

Political Art: Frog Soup

Continuing my re-post of overtly political art in the run-up to the November 5, 2024 election:
Frog Soup 11 x 11-inch acrylic painting on primed illustration board mounted on wood cradle.

Yes, I know the frogs-in-the-pot story is an urban myth. Yet it's still a great visual metaphor for the state of public awareness regarding the boiling hot water in.

In a special report in BioScience The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth a consortium of climate scientists state, “We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.”

They're alarmed to the point of panic - note the words "irreversible" "global emergency" and "unpredictable" about the rapid changes all across the Earth — far beyond the nastiest predictions of even a few years ago: the approaching collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s currents; acceleration of warming beyond previous forecasts; shocking decline in wildlife populations; burning down of the Amazonian and Australian rain forests, etcetera ad nauseam.

The mainstream media gives superficial lip service to "climate change", yet avoids and downplays the brutal severity of what is happening all around us, critical news impacting our immediate future, our children’s future, and that of most life on Earth. You would hardly know we're in the process of killing every wild organism on the planet, converting the biosphere into a sterile, technocratic monoculture that will no longer support complex life, including human beings.

Remember: As POTUS, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords. Do you believe the billionaire tech bros who back Trump / Vance - the Elon Musks, Peter Thiels, Larry Ellisons, etc. - will lead the corporate pivot to sustainable practices that don't fit with their model of financial and political gain?

Dr. Suzy Adra Interviews Ed on YouTube

Intuitive artist, yogini and author Suzy Adra, PhD interviewed me on October 11, 2024. We had a wide-ranging conversation about a few of my paintings, artistic inspiration, process, and returning to the flow after creative blocks. You can view our discussion on YouTube:

Conversation with California based Magical Realist Figurative Painter

Political Art: Pretty In Pink

'Pretty In Pink' is a 16x20-inch pastel painting I made in outrage over the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. It's based on current migrant detention camps at that border. I'm continuing to post my overtly political art in the run up to the November 5, 2024 election. If Trump and the authors of Project 2025 have their way, it won't only be illegal immigrants subject to mass deportation behind fences like these.

Even before Trump was elected in 2016 I knew he was fascist when a Latino man was assaulted at a 2015 campaign rally, Trump did nothing to stop it. In later rallies, he incited his followers to "rough up" protesters. Today he continues to use the language of violence and authoritarianism. Yet back in 2015 the use of "fascist" as a descriptor was deemed in the press and oh-so-polite society as extreme, overly emotional, and hyperbolic. Now in 2024, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley (ret.) called Trump "fascist to the core". How could the pundits and commentators be so late in realizing this?

Hermann Göring (or Goering) was the #2 Nazi behind Hitler. At his 1946 trial at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, he not only attempted to justify his actions but stated how easy it was to manipulate people based on fear of "the Other", Jews, Communists, Romas, etc., a sentiment proven in the present day by Fox News and other instruments of disinformation.

The uniforms of the Nazi SS, the Schutzstaffel-Black Corps-Deaths Head Corps ad nauseam, were intended to intimidate, instill shock and awe with their appearance. If not for their ability to inflict destruction and misery, such men and those who admire them are pathetic and ridiculous individuals.

Political Art: Neue Sturmabteilung

Neue Sturmabteilung (New Storm Troopers) 12x9-in. ink and watercolor

I’m reposting from 2020 a mash-up of a 1930s Weimar era brownshirts recruiting poster and their contemporary wannabees.

Who were the SA? The Storm Troopers were recruited from economically suffering poor, disaffected workers and disgruntled veterans. They wore cheap surplus home guard uniforms from which came their “brownshirts” moniker. However, they had no official function on any level of the German government. They provided security for Nazi rallies, waged brawls with opponents of the Nazis, and intimidated Romanis, trade unionists, and Jews while legitimate authorities and ordinary citizens turned a blind eye. In short, the SA were street thugs in uniform, taking an active part in book burnings and other murderous atrocities like the Kristallnacht riot against Jewish-owned shops and synagogues.

In exchange for German military support and to eliminate his rivals in the Nazi movement, Hitler had his elite bodyguard unit, the Schutzstaffel (SS) murder the SA leadership. SA units that remained loyal to him were downsized or simply absorbed into the military. There's a lesson here for those who would pledge loyalty to a man who is loyal to none but himself.

What does brownshirt tactics look like in the present day? First, let’s not forget January 6, 2021. How about plotting to kidnap a Michigan governor; calling in bomb threats to the city of Springfield to intimidate Haitian immigrants; make death threats to county election officials and judges trying to do their jobs? Or, a Portage County sheriff instructing his deputies to note as immigrant sympathizers citizens who put up Harris-Walz campaign signs in their yards? Or, as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security warn, domestic violent extremists (DVEs) with “election-related grievances” turning to violence in the weeks before and after the November election?

Remember that the Republican candidate for President stated that among the brownshirts of today are “some very fine people”.

Political Art: 451 Degree Fahrenheit

Last week was Banned Books Week, and in the run-up to the November 5, 2024 U.S. Election I'm reposting another of my blatantly political artworks, "451 Degree Fahrenheit". It's a 24x30 inch charcoal, acrylic, and collage mixed media painting last exhibited at the Pacific Grove Public Library in January of this year.

The deliberate spread of disinformation is not new, but with new information technology and AI, the ability to transmit it in volume, speed, and intensity is. A recent NPR RadioLab referenced the work of Synon Orale, a professor at MIT whose team did research on how information spreads on Twitter (now X). He was terrified to learn that lies and falsehood travel six times faster than truth to reach the same number of people.

Add to this that largely Republican state organizations are now actively working to suppress the facts and ideas in books that allow the citizens of our republic - and their children - to learn from the past and envision the future.

According to PEN America, since 2021 they've counted over 10,000 books banned in public schools - including for the July 2023-June 2024 school year. The states of Texas and Florida are leading the censorship charge."And everywhere, it is the books that have long fought for a place on the shelf that are being targeted. Books by authors of color, by LGBTQ+ authors, by women. Books about racism, sexuality, gender, history."

The books I referenced in this painting are among the most banned books of 2023, though for brevity I couldn't include every book on that list. Interesting to note that comparing this list with the most banned books of all time in the U.S., books by Toni Morrison are on both lists. I read many of these books in grade and high school during the 1960s and 1970s. Maybe you did also. Some of the schools I attended were pretty conservative, yet some of these books were required reading in those schools. Well, middle and high schoolers are being denied access to them today.

1984 - George Orwell

Maus - Art Spiegelman (a graphic novel about the Holocaust banned by the McMinn County school board in Tennessee)

Flamer - Mike Curato

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

and lastly, alluded to in my painting's title

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

In this painting, I made allusions to the German Student Union (Hitler Youth) book burnings in Nazi Germany, 1950s U.S. State Department-sanctioned book burnings during the Cold War, and a Tennessee pastor's congregation's burning of Harry Potter books. You might even find a rubber-booted governor portrayed somewhere among the jack-booted Nazis.

No books were harmed in the making of this painting, although I've discovered through experimentation that if you heat paper in a skillet to almost combustion temperature (451 degrees F.) it really stinks up the joint.

Political Art: Portrait of Konrad Heiden

My general approach has been to paint and draw images more subtle in their political and psychological implications. However, there are times when subtlety is inappropriate to the urgency of the day and a two-by-four-to-the-head approach is necessary. I’ll be posting my political art in the six weeks preceding a historical election in the United States that will determine if we remain for now a democratic republic.

Konrad Heiden was a Munich-born journalist who authored three books that eventually combined into "Der Fuhrer", a definitive documentation of the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party. He first witnessed Hitler at a Nazi rally in 1921. As a university student, Heiden was a member of the Social Democratic Party, whose members engaged in protests and street fights with a growing Nazi movement. He witnessed first-hand scenes strikingly familiar in the political landscape today: disillusioned, disgruntled veterans and middle-class young men all too eager to hear a charismatic, mentally unbalanced demagogue promise to "Make Germany great again", who assigned blame for Germany's economic woes on a demonized Other: Jews, communists, Romani gypsies, and soon after that “homosexuals” “the congenitally deficient" "racially inferior" and "subhuman".

Even more alarming was the acquiescence of much of the German population, who elected the Nazi party to the majority in the German Parliament. Conservative representatives of industry, agriculture, and finance demanded that Hindenburg, the President of Germany appoint Hitler as Chancellor, which occurred on January 30, 1933. In fear for his life, Heiden was forced to flee into exile at that point.

Even then, there was unfounded confidence that a Germany proud of "freedom of speech and thought" had sufficient guardrails to prevent dictatorial rule by a "mediocre" copy of Mussolini. As Konrad Heiden and history were to show, they were wrong. Do Americans hold the same illusions today?

"Portrait of Konrad Heiden" is a 20 x 16 pastel painting I created in September 2018 that references two events:

1) Hitler's March 23, 1933 address to the German Parliament. The Reichstag would grant his request for emergency dictatorial powers, only for him to dissolve it soon after.

2) February 27, 2017 address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress by then-President Donald Trump, another mediocre copy of Mussolini.

E. M. Corpus Artworks at 480 Lighthouse Gallery

Attention all collectors and lovers of art:

Three of my paintings are now available for purchase and your viewing pleasure at this newly opened gallery in Pacific Grove, California:

Tunnel
Persephone In the Springtime
Are You An Angel? (An Encounter With Non-Locality).

At ten thousand square feet this gallery is the largest on the Monterey Peninsula.

Where: 480 Lighthouse Gallery
480 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove CA 93950

help@480Lighthouse.com

(831) 915-7848

Open Tuesday through Sunday 11 AM to 3 PM. Closed Mondays and holidays.

‘As You Like It’: Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation 2024 All-Member Exhibition at Pacific Grove Art Center Opening Friday, September 6, 2024

Three of my provocative paintings related to the Tarot’s Major Arcana are now on display alongside exemplary art by the members of the Monterey Peninsula Art Foundation (MPAF). I would love to see you there.

Where: Pacific Grove Art Foundation’s Gill Gallery
568 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
(831) 375-2208
pgartcenter.org

When: September 6 - October 24, 2024

Opening Reception: Friday, September 6
7:00 - 9:00 PM

The Pacific Grove Art Center is open to the public Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 5 PM, and Sunday, 12 - 4 PM. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

E. M. Corpus’ The Yellow-Haired Girl in New Ekphrastic Book

Edward M Corpus (that’s me, by the way ) is one of fifteen visual artists plus twenty honorable mentions whose featured art served as inspiration for one hundred thirty works of poetry and prose in Vision and Verse: A Fusion of Poetry, Prose, Art and Photography. The front cover painting is by Briahn Kelly-Brennan.

This gorgeous book edited by poet Les Bernstein was just published this July by the California Writers Club, one of the nation’s oldest professional writers’ clubs. Our local chapter of the CWC is the Central Coast Writers Association, of which I’m also a member. Several Monterey area writers contributed poetry and prose to this book.

Longtime followers of my visual art may recognize this submission to the ekphrastic collection, The Yellow-Haired Girl on page 40 of Vision and Verse. Poets Jim Wolff, Mary Langer Thompson and Roger Lubeck contributed poetry and prose inspired by my painting.

“Ekphrasis” is a literary description or commentary on a visual work of art. It’s a word of Eighteenth Century origin for an ancient literary practice, Homer’s Iliad being an early example containing ekphrastic references.

Vision and Verse: A Fusion of Poetry, Prose, Art and Photography is available for purchase on Amazon.

‘Identity: Asian American Pacific Islander’ Group Exhibition at the Pajaro Valley Arts Gallery in Watsonville, California

WHERE:
Pajaro Valley Arts Gallery
37 Sudden Street
Watsonville, CA 95076

EXHIBITION: Identity: Asian American Pacific Islander curated by Reiko Michisaki & Maggie Yee

August 7 – September 22, 2024, featuring the artworks of eleven AAPI artists, including five of my paintings.

Opening Reception: Sunday, August 11, 2 - 4 PM. Performance by Watsonville Taiko at 2:30 PM. I look forward to seeing you there.

Curators’ Statement:

“Embark on a journey into identity, where influences from family and friends, society and culture, age and gender shape our existence. Envision each influence imparting a unique imprint—a mosaic that captures the diverse tapestry of our lived experiences.

Consider how age molds our self-perception and influences how others see us. In this era of LGBTQ+ visibility, we celebrate diverse gender identities and depart from traditional norms.

Reflect on the unique ties that Asian cultures have to the past—balancing breaking away from historical constraints with holding onto cherished traditions and embracing diversity. This exhibition contemplates our identities as Americans and our place within American culture.

As we come together within this exhibition, we recognize the multifaceted influences shaping our unique identities. Realize the dynamic nature of identity—where each of us presents a different face to family, friends, and the broader community.

A connecting thread binds us—the shared challenges encountered on the journey of self-discovery. Imagine this journey transcending borders and cultures, becoming a collective exploration of who we are.”

‘Fantasy’ Juried Group Exhibition at the Arc Studios & Gallery in San Francisco

My first exhibition of 2024 is at the Arc Studios & Gallery. This is a national gallery and online exhibition of the work of sixty-six artists juried by Philip Bewley of Philip Bewley Art Advisors and president of the Visual Arts Council of Vita Brevis. The work of thirty-three artists including mine can be viewed at the Arc Gallery in San Francisco beginning May 11. All artists’ work is viewable in the online catalog (see below).

“Fantasy is grounded in our ancient oral traditions and mythologies and in the history of art to the present day. The exhibition, Fantasy, at Arc Studios, is a seminal contemporary exploration of the subject with extraordinary visual depictions by contemporary artists in an expansive breadth of media: painting and drawing, collage and mixed media, photography, sculpture, and more…”

Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom Street (between 8th and 9th streets)
San Francisco, California 94103

EXHIBITION: May 11 – June 8, 2024

Fantasy Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11 7 -9 PM. I look forward to seeing you there.

The first of two Fantasy ARTISTS TALKS online via Zoom is on Wednesday, May 22, 6 - 7 PM (link to be announced). I’ll be participating along with artists Victoria Hendrix Oppenheimer, Mythili Kattupalli, Natasha Dikareva, Zoe Caron, Sarah Curtiss and Donnalynne Lefever on Wednesday, May 29, 6 - 7 PM.

The Fantasy exhibition catalog with all artworks of sixty-six exhibiting artists is viewable as a Publuu Flipbook, which is also available in print for purchase on Amazon. My gallery entry The Witch (Star Jasmine) appears on page 19.

Aspire Advantage Spring 2024 Issue features ‘Boomers of Monterey County’

'Boomers of Monterey County', my Arts Council for Monterey County grant-funded portraiture project, is the featured cover story of the Spring 2024 Aspire Advocate, the online and print newsletter of the Aspire Health Plan. The Aspire Health Plan is a Medicare Advantage subscription plan serving over seven thousand retirees of Monterey County California.

My thanks to the Aspire team JoAnne Bresler, Monica Sciuto, interviewer/writer Boni Peluso, Caryn Campo and DMT Imaging photographer Michael Troutman, and a special shout to my dear friend Alison Dunton for introducing me for consideration for this feature.

A downloadable .pdf is available here.

‘Cycles’ Juried Group Exhibition at The Pearl Works in Monterey

This juried exhibition sponsored by Emerging Artists Alliance of Monterey and The Pearl Works features the two-dimensional artwork of local emerging artists from Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties. The event is free and open to the public.

Theme: Cycles explores the complete and continuous processes that shape life. This interdisciplinary selection of visual art will create a conversation about the patterns and sequences that dictate the rhythm of change.

Sex In the City: Rice Weevils is my entry to this exhibit.

Where? The Pearl Works
288 Pearl Street
Monterey, California 93940

When? Updated Art Opening will now be Thursday, May 23rd at 6:00 PM.

This exhibition is on display at the Pearl Works from March 11 to September 27, 2024. UPDATE: Closing moved forward to Wednesday, October 16, 2024.

Viewers and patrons of the arts will have opportunities to experience and purchase these original works.

Eulipion Outpost: Art & Culture 9/10/2023 newsletter poses "Six Questions"

Jean Vengua, Filipinx American artist, writer, poet and activist, edits the Eulipion Outpost: Art & Culture, a newsletter accessible on substack which explores the diverse real lives of creative artists and musicians. In the September 10, 2023 Issue #115 she presented me with “Six Questions”.

You can read my answers to these and other features here. Subscription to Eulipion Outpost is free for now. I’d urge you to subscribe this eye-opening and entertaining newsletter on substack.

'Ourselves We Sing' Juried Art Exhibit at Pacific Grove Public Library

The exhibit is titled OURSELVES WE SING: A call and response with Walt Whitman and our understanding of our American Democracy. Two of my provocative works - 451 Degree Fahrenheit and Pretty In Pink - are among those selected for this Pacific Grove Public Library exhibit, juried by Christine Crozier, PGPL Library Curator.

Where: Pacific Grove Public Library
550 Central Ave, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Steve & Nancy Hauk Gallery

When: The exhibit and series of events runs October 6, 2023 - January 5, 2024.

Opening reception Friday, October 6, 2023 5:30pm-7:00pm.

Closing reception Friday, January 5, 2024 5:30pm-7:00pm.

Sponsored by The Pacific Grove Public Library Friends and Foundation with poetry supported by the Whitney Latham-Lechich Trust.

Arts Council of Monterey County Grant Enables "Boomers" Portrait Project

Beginning this month and over the next twelve-month period I’ll seek out, interview and photograph a dozen or so members of a specific group of Monterey County residents. This will be the prelude to painting their portraits and writing their biographical essays. Qualified residents who volunteer for my project are those born between the years of 1946 and 1964 - in other words Baby Boomers, the generation born in the immediate wake of World War II. Project participants will represent diverse ethnicities, cultural traditions, gender orientations and socio-economic backgrounds. These portraits, along with the corresponding biographical essays I write will be the subject of a public art exhibition a year from now.

Through a generous grant from the Arts Council of Monterey County my project Boomers of Monterey County will allow me to apply my unique visual style to portraits of an aging demographic that represents nearly a quarter of the U.S. population – a demographic in which I also belong. At a time where “Boomer” is a word some consider an epithet, I design this project to convey to that subject population that “You matter. You matter to the well-being of this country, to history and to me. You deserve to be seen and heard.” The project serves as a retrospective for those of us within that demographic, and as visual reminders of the commonalities shared with younger folk as well as the unique challenges those of our generation face. I’ll also explore through this project the ethics of portraiture, the implied vulnerability versus empowerment of the person who gazes as opposed to the one who is “seen”, the historical traditional portrait-painter power imbalances and how this relates to gender and class.

The magical realist surreal portraits I paint will be unlike what one might imagine of commissioned formal portraits in which the posed sitter is the clear the subject of the portrait. The Boomers of Monterey County project does not simply document the physical likeness of someone at a given point in that person’s life passage. My portrait paintings are undeniably as much about my perception of another and the personal choices I make to graphically render what I observe. As I believe is the case with all art, a portrait painting is ultimately a three-way conversation among the minds of sitter, artist and ultimately the viewers of the portraits at any given time in history.

I will offer Boomer volunteers a small monetary compensation - that’s right, the artist is paying the portrait subjects. Participants will sign model releases allowing me to take as many photographs as necessary to capture the candid expressions of their emotional and intellectual engagement with me in conversation about their lives. However, while these photographs serve solely as my visual references. I’m not aiming toward strict photographic likenesses in their painted portraits.

As a departure from my usual acrylic painting styles, this time I envision mixing different media, rendering their portraits with collage, acrylic, oil and spray paints. I’ll paint this new series of portraits in as new, experimental and bold a visual style as the way I now feel, rendering as tightly or as loosely, as literally or as fantastically as my interpretation of the sitters and their environment dictate. I would like these new portraits to be as much a revelatory surprise to me as they’ll be to my sitters and the public viewing them. I anticipate this creative art project could be the most challenging for me to date in many ways.

If you’re a member of the Baby Boomer generation and are interested in possibly participating in this project over the next twelve month period, I would gratefully invite you to contact me immediately at info@edwardmcorpus.art; and If you haven’t as yet done so, please sign up for my Art of Dreams newsletter to keep abreast of the project and upcoming exhibitions.

Grateful to Receive Arts Council for Monterey County 2023 Artist Grant!

I am honored to be among the twenty-two emerging and established artists receiving the Arts Council for Monterey County Individual Artist Grant for 2023.

"The Individual Artists Grant program was created to recognize artistic excellence, provide direct support to artists who demonstrate they are ready to take their work to a new level, and cultivate public appreciation of the role of artists in our community."

My fellow artists recognized:

JC Gonzalez
Joe Angel-Toledo
Katie Raquel
Omar Rodriguez
Andrew Jackson
Salvador Sergio Lua
Darlene Von Maschmeyer
Lee Abellana
Katie Herzog
Katrina Pura
Hanif Panni
Jess Marie Soriano
Michelle Djokic
Alejandro Gomez
Victoria Donahue
Antoine Cameron
Lori Bala
Jessica Bovert
Noelle Correia
Mai Ryuno
Mark Baer

Short statements by these artists including mine can be seen on the Arts Council website and on YouTube.

I’ll be posting details of my Boomers of Monterey County portrait and biographical essay project in subsequent posts, along with an open invitation to all who qualify and wish to participate. This generous and timely grant funding will allow me to purchase new artistic media and apply experimental techniques that will push my creative work to new directions.

Once again, a heartfelt thank you to Arts Council of Monterey County and grant jurors.

This Website Has a New URL and Email Address

My website portfolio and blog now has a new URL - edwardmcorpus.art - and my new contact and newsletter email address info@edwardmcorpus.art .

Longtime followers can remember how as late as last week the website URL was “emcanimator.com”. (Clicking on the old URL will automatically re-direct to the new one, at least for a year.) This old URL dates back some twelve years to Great Recession days, when I was a student of graphic design and animation. I thought at that time that digital animation would figure much more heavily in my career choices, hence "emc-animator".

I still love digital art and animation. I enjoy viewing classic animation old and new - and continue to use animation and 3D applications on occasion. My (hopefully) last day job was in graphic design. My graphic applications are incredibly useful for visualizing concepts that eventually evolve into the paintings and drawings I execute in wet and dry media like oil, acrylics, watercolor, charcoal and whatnot. You can still view some of my animations work - including the 2011 Outstanding Vision award-winning Capstone video Multiforme: A Digital Animation About Brain Cancer - on vimeo.com/emcorpusgraphicarts.

However, my emphasis has always been on my magical realist paintings and drawings. I decided to change the URL that my artwork had outgrown a while ago to the more apropos and timely edwardmcorpus.art.