Grace Bomer

Parachute Dummies

40 × 40 ″ Oil and wax and gold on canvas

For Sale

USD 4800

On a web site called Obsolete, I discovered World War II parachute test dummies. They were a haunting images of man’s broken condition.
The three central images, the Three Graces are manipulated images of these parachute test dummies. The central figure is embellished with gold leaf like an icon. Over these I drew the charcoal figure of a man.
The random asemic mark I made in the oil and wax top left “happens” to be the Chinese word for fly. But for the grace of God we will not fly.