we’re all in huge trouble

collection of jim zito. oil and acrylic on board, 24 x 24″. batman turns out to be an idiot. the odd backstroking man letting out a powerful cloud of mist in the background came from looking from my elementary school workbooks. some of them had these surreal summer of love type illustrations in them, but this was in the mid 80’s…so stylistically an odd inclusion. the publisher probably a jefferson airplane fan. the water treading batman waits. stares and smirks and waits. whats next? the watery scene comes from the summer float that my friends and i do every summer in the lower niagara river, a few miles after the falls. we get in, float for a few hours and let the current take us. the drops remind me of getting rained on while already wet, the enormous amount of splashing that goes along with the float and the cooling mist of the falls.