"Look What I Found" functions more as a question about the portrayal of Jesus than an answer.  She uses some of the common iconography of the Virgin or Mary Magdalene to act as a presenter of a lost (?) or buried (?) crucifixion sculpture.  He, the character, portrays Jesus as a sculpture with the physical horrors of the Crucifixion limited n order to emphasize the psychological pain.   The modest apron is missing in order to show the embarrassment of real or apparent failure, the sense of hanging nude before friend and foe alike.

Look What I found
Oil on birch panel
11" x 17"
Not for sale

Herb Eaton is an Illinois native, born in Peoria in 1949, and now a resident of Bloomington.  His professional work includes a variety of environments and objects ranging from children's museum exhibits to paintings and sculpture.  His work is always informed by his education as a sculptor  he received a M.F.A. in sculpture from Illinois State University in 1984 - and his interest in human relationships.

The transcendent aspects of sex, religion and art form both the themes and the creative process for Mr. Eaton.  Since 1985, he has developed a series of art works that use two characters, He&She, as the main subjects of a long-running narrative without a text.  He&She reveal or express what they can primarily through posture and props.  Like a novelist, Mr. Eaton allows the characters their freedom, his job being to craft the developing visual elements of the relationship.  Generally, the settings are theatrical compositions located on the broad Illinois prairie.

Mr. Eaton's ego suppression in favor of He&She allows them to portray ideas only partially conscious to him.  As he is a Catholic Christian, part of his consciousness is the reflection and consideration of his life and Jesus' life.  In this painting, He&She portray one consideration of Jesus.