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About the Work

From the Artist

I draw on real life for my ideas. I think that to do art, there has to be something inside of you like a well, and to do it for a long time, it should probably be a big well. For instance, I think about dying and how we should be nice to each other while we have the chance. Those things somehow show up in my work and it's easier for them to come out if I'm controlling the myth, rather than telling someone else's story. I mean, Snow White is nice, but there are things in there that bother me! 
_{—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records}

Martin is a world-builder. He has created a mythology to rival the Greeks, complete with imagined weddings and feuds, births and rites of passage. Whether through wisps of color so subtle they seem to have dripped off a watery paintbrush or through hyper-saturated scenes where the color screams for attention, Martin's is a fully realized world teeming with life, morality, and ritual.
_{—Excerpted from https://www.sidwell.edu/alumni/magazine/magazine-detail/~board/magazine/post/dream-weaver, accessed 7-1-21}