Prometheus – I Create My Own Version of Me

Prometheus - Part of a series entitled: Much Ado About Nothing - in which each painting unfolds upon a theatrical stage. Prometheus reimagines the ancient myth of the god who brought fire to humanity as a meditation on artistic creation. At the center of the stage the artist appears as both maker and witness, assembling a skeletal figure he recognizes as himself—a creature waiting to be brought to life. Yet the artist understands that he alone holds the power to animate it. Gestures of invention surround the moment: hands that summon life, symbols of sight and intuition, and the charged atmosphere of a laboratory where transformation feels imminent. In Sibbitt’s work the process of painting often becomes a form of theater in which the artist and the image mirror one another. Here the Promethean act suggests the restless desire to create life through art, even as the creator discovers that the studio itself becomes a place where life is imagined into being.