Lady Lazarus

53 x 32 in

mixed media

2015

Glass Parts

 

Her Mouth Was Hemlock

“When down her weedy trophies and herself

Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;

And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:

Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;

As one incapable of her own distress,

Or like a creature native and indued

Unto that element: but long it could not be

Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,

Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay

To muddy death."

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"O"

epoxy resin, found objects

on steel frame mounted on reclaimed wood

Wickerman

The hour has come to sleep 

for the weaker man, my wicked one.

Now woebegone woman, be gone.

Now woe, be gone; woman, be gone.

 

Childhood, goddamned Childhood

D' Kids Are Alright. Watercolor paintings and sculptures by Renato "Jojo" Barja Jr. 

1. Balloon Head Boy
2. Combatant Boy / Combatant Children
3. Costume
4. Frog Boy
5. Garbage Boy
6. Gypsy Girl
7. Incomplete Boy / Charcoal Girl
8. Loner / Simone Barja
9. Market Boy / Boy in the Public Market
10. Ngo
11. No Classes
12. Preparatory Class
13. Sailor Boy
14. Salt Vendor Girl / Salt Vendor Children