Where I post an artwork (by me) that I'd like to draw attention to (for a week), and write a little extra information about it.
This week's artwork: Quetzalcoatl Fighting The Pope
Dating all the way back to 2004, this was one of my earliest attempts to combine watercolors and ink in a single artwork. (There would be many, many later attempts, some more successful than others.) The subject matter of the painting is an admittedly silly allegory about the role of the Catholic Church (symbolized by the heavily-tattooed Pope) in the conquest of the native cultures of the Americas (symbolized by Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god of the Aztecs).
It appears that Quetzalcoatl has the upper hand here, but that's artistic license on my part; we all know what really happened. As a deliberate allegory, this is an outlier among my paintings; I've mostly kept (conscious) allegory in poetry and other media, and avoided outright socio-political commentary with a paintbrush. (Exceptions can be found here, here, and here.)