Ben Continues Pop Art Portrait Series with LOST’s John Locke

I’ve been watching ABC‘s LOST since day one, and while I’m not always a step ahead of the story, I do consider myself a big fan — Especially of Terry O’Quinn’s Emmy-Award-winning character, John Locke. The last season started on the 2nd, which reminded me after the long break how influential a character he was. Not just in the context of the story, but myself personally. I’ve always identified with his uniquely conflicting outer solemnity and inner turmoil.

Box Company Prophet (John Locke) - Front

This piece is entitled “Box Company Prophet,” an allusion to Locke’s character-development; from regional collections supervisor of a box company before the crash, to prophet of The Island and messiah to its people in more recent episodes.

Box Company Prophet (John Locke) - Edges

This is my first time treating the edges the same as the front — The design wraps around the right and bottom edges.

Box Company Prophet (John Locke) - Close-Up

I called back to my second hand-built canvas piece, “CIR01,” by including a splatter painted motif for the background. This time around, however, I masked the foreground space with paper to preserve the raw canvas, which allowed for the unpainted areas of Locke himself to still be solid.

Box Company Prophet (John Locke) - Frame

Like the last few paintings I’ve made, the canvas frame is hand-made, this time using 1.75″ x 1.75″ (stretchers) and 0.75″ x 0.5″ footing (raisers), both pine.

Box Company Prophet (John Locke) - In-Situ

As has been the norm lately, the piece is available for sale from my store on Etsy. Give it a look!