The First Journal
painted the 10th of February, 1988
by Thomas Spanos

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I first painted a much larger version of this cryptic figure at the request of my friend Laurie . She had asked for an original piece of art from each of her friends to display in her personal gallery.

The inspiration for this blue man grew out of the memory of the most bizarre Xmas program I had ever seen. The show in question, aired a decade before, was about the Three Wise Men from Outer Space. The characters in the animation were blue and rendered as stylized geometric form. In recognition of my graveyard picnicking friend's tastes, I outfitted this first blue man in cemetery dress.