When
you first walk in (with or without a
clipboard), Steven Daily's paintings zoom out
at you immediately because they're just so drippingly sinister and
mystic-looking. Bejeweled fetal skeletons! Two-headed mutant lambs!
Creepy demons! Skulls and occult symbolism everywhere! These are the
exact types of paintings you'd expect to see if you were roaming around
a Freemason temple all alone in the dark, completely naked (except for
a fez, of course), and accidentally wandered into a super-secret
drawing room. You'd look up and there you'd have it: Stephen Daily paintings all over
the walls!"
Dichotomy" is my favorite
because I'm convinced there's an interesting story going on here. Check
out the two skeleton guys on the very left. One is wearing an eyepatch and the other is wearing a monocle. Obviously, they both have
afflictions in their right eyes, right? Well, that's why they're
buddies/best friends and are always together. Now shift your eyes over
to the guy in the back row, all the way at the end on the right. Note
that he also has an eye affliction but he's wearing an eye patch on his
LEFT eye. The right-eye-afflicted Freemason skeleton couple HATE him
and shun him 
from
their group for having his affliction in the wrong eye. Or I guess it
could be that they just don't like him because he's a huge jerk. I
don't know. In any case, they don't want to be anywhere near him. I
asked Steven Daily if that's what was
really going on and he didn't confirm or deny it. Suspicious!
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