48”x36” Oil on canvas

The temporal bone, located on the side of the skull, is part of the Good Bones series, which seeks to strip away the fluff to highlight all kinds of hidden beauty. I was inspired to paint it from an inside view to showcase the juxtaposition of the smooth, shell-like “squamous portion” with a rough outcropping called the “Petrous Portion”. Aptly named, as petrous means rocky, this rather unsightly crag humbly houses the fragile organs of the inner ear.

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