Artist’s Note:
This diptych is a modern, plasticky reconstruction of a Baroque-period painting by Janssens, “Ceres, Bacchus, and Venus.” In the original, which might have been commissioned by a Dutch brewery, the classical mythological creatures are having a good time; everything is meant to be idyllic. 
My painting is placid as well. But there is a sense of aggression hidden in the energies of the composition and in the gestures and in the limbs of the green Cupid meme in front of Venus’s face. The attempts to cover that aggression with sweetness, like the colored bubbles floating in the air, only underline that the world is a messed-up place.

Titian Three Ages of Man. (1515)