Series Title: 1/6th of a Second of Reflection on the Relative Importance of Events in the History of Western Civilization

Individual Title: Would You Trade Michelangelo’s David so that three 16th Century Peasants Could have had Better Lives?

This series of four paintings was created as a traditional animation set-up - with a 12 field cel hand painted with cel vinyl paint placed over a hand painted background. The cel is inked on the front and painted on the back as was the practice in the heyday of animated shorts and features.

Traditional high quality animation required 24 cels for each second of film, or 24 frames per second. Thus, these four painted set-ups constitute 1/6 of a second.