"We Are Stardust"

36"x 40"
Oil and 22k gold leaf on canvas
2024

Available at art629 Gallery

Asbury Park, NJ

I’m often inspired by song lyrics. I listen to songs and create images in my head, and in this case I took the lyrics of “Gold Dust Woman” by Stevie Nicks, which she has said is not about cocaine but a kind of symbolic look at somebody going through a bad time and “trying to just make it, trying to live…just trying to get through it to the next thing.”

I combined this idea with lyrics from Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock”, which I take to mean, in a world full of hatred and division, we are all made up of the same stuff:
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil’s bargain
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

And so, I created this golddust/stardust woman.

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