The Lizard-Brain Addiction Monster

Ink and acrylics painting on paper. A3 (approximately).

This is an acrylic painting that I did a few years ago on the theme of alcohol addiction. What I wanted to do was to produce an image that said something about that was a visual metaphor for that primal, lizard-brain driven aspect aspect of addiction... something more Darwinian, perhaps? ...and without the needless religious element of the usual cliched "demon whispering in a person's ear" thing.

Here's an interesting piece of trivia: I actually don't own the original anymore; it's hanging on my friend Claudia Christian's wall in her home in Los Angeles (yup... that's right - Commander Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5 owns pieces of my art - haha! how's that for a claim to fame?!?).