BOOGEYMAN

Mixed Medium     15 1/2" X 19 1/2"

    This is a painting about fear of the unknown.
The face of the mythical African Boogeyman,
a half-man with hideous teeth, is seen in shadows of moonlight.
Every culture has a boogey man. The evil beings hide outside
your door or your window, or your life, and look inside.
Perhaps it is the smothered Cross, or the succulent perversions
spiraling around it, that the monster seeks to devour.
The flowers grow wildly both inside and outside.
The painting gives us an illusion of the window almost open
and the danger of evil seeping inside. The half-man can become invisible.
A feeling of things being strange and unknown is the desired effect
achieved by Ringstaff in this painting.