My Dark Places

By Mark Kaufman
Sure I have a dark side. But not as dark as this! Here is a detail of something I found hidden in my attic over the weekend. It was painted many, many years ago and tucked away in the furthest reaches of the attic space in my house. At the bottom is a stitched together version of the entire piece. It was painted on wall board and is about 8 feet long, from left to right is abstract fire (?!), followed by a tree with leaves falling off, and at the center of it all is a floating Jesus figure with no legs, moving right you will see a blob like figure going up in smoke, is it an egg, is it part of the crumbling city scape? And then finally the best part, the city scape gives way to a trio of creepy characters, a dog like head with white pinpoint eyes,  some sort of brown, zombie/devil face, and then a worried looking man’s head with a unibrow. It has some sort of biblical meaning that I do not understand, If anyone knows what the meaning of the piece is, please let me know! It is a fine example of outsider art, and was signed by someone named  Dick Hauser. The only problem is that it was found deep inside my house. I found another piece on the same substrate, but it was only a bad Pollock like imitation. Bad things man.