The Devil Guitar (2009)

I'm painting a continuing acrylic series I call "Rust Town." Each work shows a different and exaggerated facet, wryly drawn with a wink and a dry smile, of the culture of small-town rural America. Here we are somewhere in the desolate dry mountains somewhere near Rust Town. He plays his Devil Guitar and she sits there, listening? watching? next to a shot gun that leans against their cabin.