This work is a unique large scale monotype, painted, burnished and pulled by the artist using oil paint and ink on heavy watercolor paper. Artist was inspired by the story and archival photographs of the first ever modern marathon, modeled after the accounts from Ancient Greece, and held in 1896. In the process of making the work artist explored body in motion through vigorous brushwork and interplay of transparent and opaque color fields to express movement, urgency, and joy.
