Work on Paper by Mark Westervelt: Bleeding Heart

Red loops stretch from a gray-green figure's outspread arms like a stringed instrument.

This work on paper is by Bleeding Heart, and is ca. 2006. It is paint & mixed media on paper. Because the skins are peeled up, anything painted on them is reversed, so he must write text backwards and paint a figure facing right if it is meant to look left. A rectangular panel built from marbled maroon and gray segments. A figure in a gray-green dress with yellow tights and black shoes stands with arms wide, holding red cords that loop down across the body. It is 5 inches wide, 0.25 deep and 7 high.

Plenty of string, and not a puppet in sight.