Scarabs

I'm still painting away - the gallery calls!

This is a painting I started a year ago.

A fractured abstract version of a

decorative scarab.

 

 It has a long way to go -

and I'm still not sure where it's headed .

. .

 

I used an incredible stencil - clock mechanisms.

In Egypt, the scarab was seen as a symbol of the heavenly cycle and of the idea or rebirth or regeneration. So I thought the stencil symbolizes time and the passage of time - so it seemed appropriate to use it in this painting.