Transmission

2024

oil on canvas

152.4 × 183 cm (60 × 72 inches)

"The reference for this painting is The Conversion of St. Paul by Benozzo Gozzoli. The text in the book is also from Courtney’s poem, The Fourth Talking Scroll, and this section reads: 'the night Gabriel lost her/ baby the angels blew two/ trumpets the other angels/ screamed their chants into the caves whose echoes held together/ and collapsed into songs more and more songs dirges ballads requiem two-step aubade/ the kind from the radio/ til someday you find one song one real song and in the song will be a grail a real grail'. " - Brittany Miller