Bob "Snake" Plissken is the anti-hero that escaped from the prison city of New York in the 80s, and later escaped from L.A. in the 90s after the earthquake that separated California from the rest of the United States and the prison state that ensued. Here, the artist has represented himself as the character Snake, painted in detail formed after Caravaggio's painting of "Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness." A creation from the 1600s which is housed currently in the Nelson-Atkins Collection in Kansas City, where the artist spent his childhood. Caravaggio, as we know, had no business painting Saints. Read more about the work: https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/1130/saint-john-the-baptist-in-the-wilderness.
The painting(Plissken After Caravaggio) comes from the "Anti-Hero" works of art series, where the Artist is portraying himself as the "(Anti)Hero Artist", and was one of the first digital works ever created by the Jake, and was presented as part of his MFA to his graduate school committee. The professors immediately scoffed at the work and it was thrown out. Now, 10 years later, recovered and saved from a faulty hard drive: Tokenized in the digital realm, it is now publicly viewable where as for the last decade it lay dormant and forgotten.
