still life with refugees / by Philip Tarlow

still life with refugees, 42x42”, oil & collage on linen.

3:05 PM: i wasn’t happy with the previous state of still life with refugees; it was way too busy. so today, i made it even busier! here it is as it looked at the end of my painting day. the script you see was inspired by a photo i saw of the oldest known scripts.

before flipping it upside down