09-18-2025, 11:30 PM
In Russia, “yellow house” is a colloquial or informal term denoting a place of
unwellness - such as a mental hospital or asylum. A noisy, chaotic environment.
A bar stool - whose seat is pecked by small tears and gashes, legs weathered by
time and splinter, lay toppled on its side. A rope, straight and taut, clings tightly to
the aged wooden rafter over head. A man’s body dangles two feet off the ground
at the end of the fibrous ligature.
By the time police arrive his functions had released, resulting in a puddle of both solid
and liquid waste on the already dirty floor below - combined with shallow adjoining pools
of coral from his slit forearms.
Adding to the stench - the mold and mildew of the dank and derelict garage - rotting
boards and what had to be several tiny, hidden vermin in various stages of decay.
In the living room, a navy blue and tan backpack is found on the couch. One of the
officers looks inside to find a small handgun and a dark green school folder stuffed
with stacks of notebook paper.
He thumbs through - they are filled with the erratic scribbling of scattered thoughts.
https://imgur.com/a/QGJqOrX
"Yellow House" - First in the three-part series 'SICK'
Mixed media on plywood. My 173rd painting.
unwellness - such as a mental hospital or asylum. A noisy, chaotic environment.
A bar stool - whose seat is pecked by small tears and gashes, legs weathered by
time and splinter, lay toppled on its side. A rope, straight and taut, clings tightly to
the aged wooden rafter over head. A man’s body dangles two feet off the ground
at the end of the fibrous ligature.
By the time police arrive his functions had released, resulting in a puddle of both solid
and liquid waste on the already dirty floor below - combined with shallow adjoining pools
of coral from his slit forearms.
Adding to the stench - the mold and mildew of the dank and derelict garage - rotting
boards and what had to be several tiny, hidden vermin in various stages of decay.
In the living room, a navy blue and tan backpack is found on the couch. One of the
officers looks inside to find a small handgun and a dark green school folder stuffed
with stacks of notebook paper.
He thumbs through - they are filled with the erratic scribbling of scattered thoughts.
https://imgur.com/a/QGJqOrX
"Yellow House" - First in the three-part series 'SICK'
Mixed media on plywood. My 173rd painting.
